WBEZ Chicago9%
A good lake, not a great lake 64%
By The Curious City Team79%
7/8/2026, 10:00:00 AM
Keywords: A Good Lake Not A Great Lake
BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 28.4% saturation with 40 hits. Analysis detected 360 faulty-reasoning hits from 141 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 58.6% and a BS Rank of 64% (7,927 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 63.80% of the article peer group.
For a brief time in 1998, there were six Great Lakes instead of five.
The change quickly made national headlines, and Midwesterners took notice.
They were shocked and outraged.
Wedged between New York and Vermont, Lake Champlain is long, skinny, and relatively small — only 435 square miles.
It just didn’t measure up to the other Great Lakes.
How this lake made it into this exclusive club has to do with some language quietly added to an uncontroversial bill in Congress.
Curious City partners with the Points North podcast from Interlochen Public Radio to dive into the story behind Lake Champlain’s short stint as a Great Lake.
Press play to listen and read the story here.
Points North is a podcast about the land, water, and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.
Follow them @pointsnorthpodcast
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