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 707 pieces that carry a discrepancy matrix, the accounts diverge 2153 times. 235 are genuine contradictions — the outlets cannot both be telling the truth about a fact. The other 1918 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	27	531	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	37	390	427	91%
Reuters	28	347	375	93%
Fox News	17	230	247	93%
The Hill	22	176	198	89%
anchor	15	177	192	92%
Washington Examiner	10	170	180	94%
CBS News	17	147	164	90%
CNN	15	142	157	90%
BBC News	12	143	155	92%
Al Jazeera	20	130	150	87%
New York Post	10	129	139	93%
The Guardian	9	104	113	92%
NBC News	12	85	97	88%
NPR	6	80	86	93%

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 2026-09-18. 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.