Speaker summary
⁠47%6 analyzed articles/videos26 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Tribune Content Agency results contain 2 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 40.6% saturation with 13 hits. Analysis detected 17 faulty-reasoning hits from 26 analyzed words across 6 articles, generating a BS Score of 26.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠45% (22,105 of 40,165 speakers). This Tribune Content Agency is better (less manipulative) than 55.00% of the peer group.
Tribune Content Agency
Speaker ranking list
PercentileSpeakerBS Score
⁠0%The Brookings Institution1%
⁠0%Conor Heffernan1%
⁠0%Gen Jack Keane1%
⁠0%MARGARET BRENNAN1%
⁠0%Shahryar Yadegar1%
⁠45%Tribune Content Agency (selected)27%
⁠100%314 Action Fund100%
⁠100%21 Grams100%
⁠100%2035 Initiative100%
⁠100%1X representative100%
⁠100%1455 Storytelling Arts100%

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

45% percentile
025507510045.0% percentile
26.6% BS Score6 analyzed videos26 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Speaker 40.6%40.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 12.5%12.5%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Speaker 40.6%, sitewide 0.5%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 12.5%, sitewide 11.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or ServiceSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

Leubsdorf: Trump administration threatens states to tighten voting rules⁠76%
East Bay Times⁠33%By Carl Leubsdorf⁠93%7/25/2026, 3:15:45 AM
Skelton: Californians sour on Newsom’s push to ban gas-powered cars⁠45%
East Bay Times⁠33%By George Skelton⁠55%7/25/2026, 2:45:02 AM
Attempt…38%
Asking Eric: Boyfriend has to defer college and wants girlfriend to stay behind with him⁠6%
Baltimore Sun⁠46%By R Eric Thomas⁠37%7/22/2026, 3:00:46 AM
Opinion: Crucial task of protecting workers now falls to local enforcement⁠61%
The Mercury News⁠34%By Terri Gerstein⁠77%7/22/2026, 2:30:45 AM
Asking Eric: Perimenopause treatment prompts awkward questions⁠22%
New York Daily News⁠46%By R. Eric Thomas⁠37%7/13/2026, 9:00:00 PM
Susan Collins frets⁠79%
Daily Kos⁠87%By Daily Kos Staff⁠100%7/9/2026, 4:00:00 PM