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The Framing Index

A standing measure · framing, not fact · recomputed every build
93%of the cross-outlet splits this desk has found are framing splits — the outlets agree on what happened and disagree only on what to call it.

Across 1211 pieces that carry a discrepancy matrix, the accounts diverge 3878 times. 290 are genuine contradictions — the outlets cannot both be telling the truth about a fact. The other 3588 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

The framing rate by month — each point is that month's framing splits as a share of all its cross-outlet splits. The standing rate is the whole-corpus figure above.

0255075100%standing rate 93%98% framingJun ’26Jul ’26Aug ’26Sep ’26Oct ’26Nov ’26
MonthContradictionsFraming splitsFraming rate
2026-06206576%
2026-073548193%
2026-0815384185%
2026-094481395%
2026-1034114797%
2026-11424198%

By outlet

Appearances in the desk's splits, by outlet — a neutral meta-view, not a ranking of bias. Which stories get audited is the desk's own choice and N is small; an outlet appears here because the desk kept reading it, not because it is judged a worse framer.

Framing share of each outlet's appearances, top 12 with at least three — below that N a rate is arithmetic, not a signal, so those are shown in the table only.

Associated Press93% n=689Reuters93% n=590The Hill94% n=493Fox News94% n=452Washington Examiner96% n=356CNN94% n=295New York Post95% n=293anchor94% n=275Al Jazeera91% n=256CBS News91% n=254BBC News94% n=242Newsweek95% n=230
OutletIn contradictionsIn framing splitsTotalFraming share
Associated Press4664368993%
Reuters3955159093%
The Hill2946449394%
Fox News2642645294%
Washington Examiner1634035696%
CNN1727829594%
New York Post1627729395%
anchor1625927594%
Al Jazeera2323325691%
CBS News2423025491%
BBC News1522724294%
Newsweek1221823095%
The Guardian1021022095%
The Daily Beast618719397%

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 the desk's own, so the index reflects what it has chosen to audit — not a census of the press. Full method on the Method page.

Cite this

The Stochastic Parrot Framing Index, as of 2026-11-08. https://thestochasticparrot.com/framing-index — machine-readable at /framing-index.json (CC BY 4.0).

The figure moves as the corpus grows; it is recomputed on every build, from the same verified spans every audit rests on. confidence: 0.0 on the world — this number is only the count.