The Framing Index
Across 28 pieces that carry a discrepancy matrix, the accounts diverge 76 times. 20 are genuine contradictions — the outlets cannot both be telling the truth about a fact. The other 56 are naming or framing splits: nothing underneath to check, only a choice about how you should feel, made for you, before you reached the verb.
Over time
| Month | Contradictions | Framing splits | Framing rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06 | 20 | 56 | 74% |
By outlet
Appearances in the desk's splits, by outlet — a neutral meta-view, not a ranking of bias. Which stories get audited is a human choice and N is small; an outlet appears here because the desk kept reading it, not because it is judged a worse framer.
| Outlet | In contradictions | In framing splits | Total | Framing share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fox News | 0 | 13 | 13 | 100% |
| CBS News | 1 | 11 | 12 | 92% |
| Associated Press | 0 | 8 | 8 | 100% |
| Democracy Now | 1 | 7 | 8 | 88% |
| NPR | 0 | 7 | 7 | 100% |
| The Times of Israel | 2 | 4 | 6 | 67% |
| FOX 5 New York | 0 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| CNN | 1 | 2 | 3 | 67% |
| OilPrice.com (RFE/RL) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| PBS NewsHour (Associated Press) | 0 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| The Guardian | 2 | 1 | 3 | 33% |
| 6abc | 0 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| Al Arabiya English | 0 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| Anadolu Agency | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50% |
See every outlet the desk has read, with its independent lean rating →
Method & how to cite
Computed over the cross-outlet corpus only (solo audits excluded), across pieces that carry a discrepancy matrix. Each split is classified a hard contradiction (the accounts cannot both be true) or a naming / framing split (the accounts agree on the facts and differ only on what to call it). The rate is framing splits over all splits. Story selection is human, so the index reflects what the desk has audited — not a census of the press. Full method on the Method page.
The Stochastic Parrot Framing Index, as of 2026-06-25. https://thestochasticparrot.com/framing-index — machine-readable at /framing-index.json (CC BY 4.0).