The Framing Index

A standing measure · framing, not fact · recomputed every build

89%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 748 pieces that carry a discrepancy matrix, the accounts diverge 2266 times. 238 are genuine contradictions — the outlets cannot both be telling the truth about a fact. The other 2028 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.

Month	Contradictions	Framing splits	Framing rate
2026-06	20	65	76%
2026-07	35	481	93%
2026-08	153	841	85%
2026-09	30	641	96%

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.

Outlet	In contradictions	In framing splits	Total	Framing share
Associated Press	37	405	442	92%
Reuters	28	367	395	93%
Fox News	18	244	262	93%
The Hill	22	201	223	90%
anchor	15	204	219	93%
Washington Examiner	11	177	188	94%
CBS News	17	150	167	90%
BBC News	12	151	163	93%
CNN	15	147	162	91%
Al Jazeera	20	136	156	87%
New York Post	10	140	150	93%
The Guardian	9	114	123	93%
Newsweek	7	94	101	93%
NBC News	12	85	97	88%

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 2026-09-24. 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.