KQED⁠61%

What Will Pacifica Do About Its Iconic — but Deteriorating — Pier? ⁠68%

By Ericka Cruz Guevarra⁠0% Ezra David Romero⁠0% Jessica Kariisa⁠0% Alan Montecillo⁠0%

6/15/2026, 10:00:15 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Pessimism Bias, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 37.8% saturation with 45 hits. Analysis detected 326 faulty-reasoning hits from 119 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 61.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠68% (7,086 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 67.60% of the article peer group.

Last week, the Pacifica City Council approved an emergency declaration to demolish the beloved Chit Chat Cafe at the Pacifica Pier, as parts of the structure began to crumble into the ocean. 
Plans for the rest of the pier are still up in the air, as Pacifica residents reckon with the future of their coastal community in the face of coastal erosion, sea level rise, and climate change. 
Links: 
‘You Can’t Beat Mother Nature’: Destroyed Cafe Gives Pacifica Look at Climate-Changed Future 
Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.4%CalMatters: 1.9%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.6%CalMatters: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 30.3%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 4.7%CalMatters: 3.0%Availability Heuristic30.3%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.8%CalMatters: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.1%CalMatters: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 21.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 13.1%CalMatters: 6.3%Framing Effect21.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.8%CalMatters: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.5%CalMatters: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.2%CalMatters: 3.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 30.3%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.8%CalMatters: 1.4%Pessimism Bias30.3%This article: 37.8%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 10.4%CalMatters: 6.4%Negativity Bias37.8%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.2%CalMatters: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 3.1%CalMatters: 1.7%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.4%CalMatters: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 26.9%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 4.2%CalMatters: 2.7%Halo Effect26.9%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.4%CalMatters: 0.9%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.7%CalMatters: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.5%CalMatters: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.7%CalMatters: 3.1%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 10.9%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.6%CalMatters: 1.1%False Dilemma10.9%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.1%CalMatters: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 3.9%CalMatters: 3.6%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.4%CalMatters: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 26.9%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 4.1%CalMatters: 5.3%Appeal to Emotion26.9%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.4%CalMatters: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.5%CalMatters: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.5%CalMatters: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.2%CalMatters: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 10.9%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.2%Appeal to Nature10.9%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.4%CalMatters: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.7%CalMatters: 3.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 30.3%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.1%CalMatters: 1.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)30.3%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.1%CalMatters: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.6%CalMatters: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 10.9%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 4.2%CalMatters: 0.8%Unattributed Quote10.9%This article: 10.9%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.0%CalMatters: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection10.9%This article: 26.9%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 7.9%CalMatters: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice26.9%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.9%CalMatters: 1.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.0%CalMatters: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.4%CalMatters: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

119 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers48%attributed speech62writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coveragePacifica City Council • 32 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 36 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageKQED • 25 words • 0.0% coverage
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Pacifica City Council

100%flagged-word coverage
32 attributed words56% of attributed speech98% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Pacifica City Council: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote-21.0 ptsWriter: 21.0%Pacifica City Council: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-21.0 ptsWriter: 21.0%Pacifica City Council: 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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