The Framing Index

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

90%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 917 pieces that carry a discrepancy matrix, the accounts diverge 2829 times. 271 are genuine contradictions — the outlets cannot both be telling the truth about a fact. The other 2558 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	44	813	95%
2026-10	19	358	95%

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	39	489	528	93%
Reuters	36	438	474	92%
Fox News	24	325	349	93%
The Hill	25	288	313	92%
anchor	16	259	275	94%
Washington Examiner	14	236	250	94%
CNN	16	190	206	92%
New York Post	13	186	199	93%
CBS News	20	171	191	90%
BBC News	14	175	189	93%
Al Jazeera	22	160	182	88%
The Guardian	9	144	153	94%
Newsweek	9	125	134	93%
The Daily Beast	6	127	133	95%

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 2026-10-13. 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.