A farewell note from CEO Peter Bhatia 90%

By Peter Bhatia99%

5/16/2025, 4:28:05 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Indoctrination, and Biased Writer Voice, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 48.6% saturation with 101 hits. Analysis detected 525 faulty-reasoning hits from 208 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 84% and a BS Rank of 90% (2,113 of 21,191 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.00% of the article peer group.

To our readers and supporters: 
Today, May 15, 2025, Houston Landing says goodbye. 
After more than two years of producing independent, nonpartisan, deeply reported journalism, we have ceased operations due to financial challenges. 
While this outcome is disappointing, I also feel an immense amount of gratitude and pride in what our team built and accomplished. 
When Houston Landing launched in February 2023, we set out to make Houston better, one story at a time. 
Since then, we’ve published thousands of stories that reached millions of readers, spotlighting issues that matter most to Houstonians. 
This final chapter has been among our most meaningful. 
In just the last month, our newsroom was honored with dozens of awards and recognitions  celebrating the courage, integrity and impact of our reporting. 
These honors affirm what we’ve always known: outstanding journalism can spark change, uncover truth and transform communities. 
We are deeply proud of what we built. 
But more than anything, we’re grateful for your trust, readership and belief in our mission. 
Though this is goodbye, we know the work will live on in every journalist who refuses to look away and in every reader who demands better. 
With sincere gratitude, 
Peter Bhatia, CEO, Houston Landing 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 12.5%Peter Bhatia: 6.9%Houston Landing: 1.5%Confirmation Bias12.5%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 3.0%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 5.8%Houston Landing: 0.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 9.1%Peter Bhatia: 3.0%Houston Landing: 3.9%Framing Effect9.1%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.4%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 9.1%Peter Bhatia: 17.9%Houston Landing: 2.5%Optimism Bias9.1%This article: 12.5%Peter Bhatia: 4.2%Houston Landing: 0.7%Pessimism Bias12.5%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 5.5%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 14.4%Peter Bhatia: 34.0%Houston Landing: 1.9%Self-Serving Bias14.4%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 4.2%Houston Landing: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 29.3%Peter Bhatia: 17.8%Houston Landing: 1.7%Halo Effect29.3%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 12.0%Peter Bhatia: 9.5%Houston Landing: 1.0%Recency Bias12.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 12.0%Peter Bhatia: 6.7%Houston Landing: 2.9%Appeal to Authority12.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 12.5%Peter Bhatia: 4.2%Houston Landing: 0.6%Slippery Slope12.5%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 9.1%Peter Bhatia: 6.1%Houston Landing: 2.5%Hasty Generalization9.1%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 48.6%Peter Bhatia: 29.3%Houston Landing: 3.9%Appeal to Emotion48.6%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 2.7%Houston Landing: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 8.2%Peter Bhatia: 2.7%Houston Landing: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)8.2%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 2.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.5%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 26.0%Peter Bhatia: 37.5%Houston Landing: 2.8%Biased Writer Voice26.0%This article: 27.9%Peter Bhatia: 9.3%Houston Landing: 1.4%Indoctrination27.9%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%Houston Landing: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 9.1%Peter Bhatia: 3.0%Houston Landing: 0.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…9.1%

208 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker2.4%attributed speech203writer words
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Writer's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coveragePeter Bhatia • 5 words • 0.0% coverage
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Peter Bhatia

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5 attributed words100% of attributed speech90% writer coverage
0%15.0%30.0%Indoctrination-28.6 ptsWriter: 28.6%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-26.6 ptsWriter: 26.6%Peter Bhatia: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -9.4 ptsWriter: 9.4%Peter Bhatia: 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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