BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including no named faulty reasoning patterns yet, with no single egregious example has been isolated yet. Analysis detected 212 faulty-reasoning hits from 375 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 14.8% and a BS Rank of 4% (22,831 of 23,598 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 96.70% of the article peer group.

The judges’ comments about MLK50’s Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder Public Service Award on screen during the Diamond Journalism awards ceremony on July 25. 
It reads: “Wow! 
What great work getting an inside look at a system that is so opaque so much of the time. 
Truly a public service to do the work required to find out how kids are being treated in lockup.” 
Photo by Andrea Morales/MLK50 
Staff members from MLK50: Justice Through Journalism earned three Diamond Journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Arkansas chapter. 
The awards honor work from professional and student journalists, freelancers and communications professionals who live in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. 
For the second year in a row, MLK50 won the Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder Public Service Award. 
This year, reporter Rebecca Cadenhead, managing editor Charity L. 
Scott, visual journalist Kevin Wurm and creative director Andrea Morales shared it for the work they did on “No School, No Fresh Air and Isolated : Solitary Confinement in Shelby County’s Juvenile Detention Center.” 
(In 2025, the prize rewarded the work on Memphis’ lead crisis .) 
The reporting team also earned an award in the Continuing Coverage category for its work on the immigration crackdown in Memphis. 
Morales and Wurm also were honored for a collection of images that captured the impact of the Memphis Safe Task Force. 
The Diamond Awards banquet was held on July 25. 
In another regional win, Wurm’s work earned a first-place win in the Green Eyeshade Awards contest, which honors journalism in Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. 
Virgin Islands. 
Wurm’s images of South Memphis resistance to xAI won for best environmental photography. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.2%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 6.1%MLK50 Staff: 1.5%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 2.0%Framing Effect6.1%This article: 2.4%MLK50 Staff: 0.6%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Loss Aversion2.4%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.2%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 1.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 1.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.2%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 4.3%MLK50 Staff: 1.1%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.1%Recency Bias4.3%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.7%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.3%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 1.6%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.7%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 2.4%MLK50 Staff: 0.6%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.3%Bandwagon2.4%This article: 5.1%MLK50 Staff: 1.3%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 3.4%Appeal to Emotion5.1%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.2%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 5.9%MLK50 Staff: 1.5%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.3%Anecdotal5.9%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 11.2%MLK50 Staff: 2.8%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)11.2%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 10.9%MLK50 Staff: 5.5%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.5%Unattributed Quote10.9%This article: 5.9%MLK50 Staff: 1.5%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.5%Quote-first Misdirection5.9%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%MLK50 Staff: 0.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 2.4%MLK50 Staff: 3.3%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…2.4%

375 words analyzed.

Speakers

5speakers35%attributed speech245writer words
75%flagged-word coverage
80 attributed words62% of attributed speech33% writer coverage
0%10.0%20.0%Unattributed Quote-16.7 ptsWriter: 16.7%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-9.0 ptsWriter: 9.0%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -3.7 ptsWriter: 3.7%MLK50: Justice Through Journalism: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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