Gothamist⁠77%

Runway reopens at LaGuardia Airport after sinkhole upends travel ⁠19%

By Christopher Werth⁠0%

5/23/2026, 5:15:53 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Unattributed Quote, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 29.7% saturation with 51 hits. Analysis detected 351 faulty-reasoning hits from 172 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 34% and a BS Rank of ⁠19% (17,736 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 81.00% of the article peer group.

Both runways are now operational at LaGuardia Airport after a sinkhole closed one of the travel hub’s airstrips days before the busy Memorial Day weekend, airport officials said. 
The Port Authority, which operates LaGuardia, said workers discovered the sinkhole near runway 4/22 during a routine morning inspection on Wednesday. 
Officials had planned to re-open the airstrip on Friday but were delayed after workers found additional problems. 
“Following a thorough inspection of LaGuardia’s airfield pavement using ground-penetrating radar, areas of concern were identified and proactively repaired,” airport officials said in a written statement. 
“Those repairs are now complete.” 
The sinkhole has upended air travel at the airport and officials warned of residual delays, even after the runway reopened. 
By Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m., 50 flights were delayed coming in and out of LaGuardia along with seven cancellations, FlightAware data shows. 
Travelers are advised to check with their airline before flying. 
An investigation into the cause of the sinkhole is ongoing, airport officials said. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 15.1%Christopher Werth: 1.6%Gothamist: 2.7%Confirmation Bias15.1%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 1.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 29.7%Christopher Werth: 4.9%Gothamist: 3.6%Availability Heuristic29.7%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 2.9%Christopher Werth: 0.3%Gothamist: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias2.9%This article: 5.2%Christopher Werth: 6.2%Gothamist: 8.4%Framing Effect5.2%This article: 5.8%Christopher Werth: 0.6%Gothamist: 1.2%Loss Aversion5.8%This article: 5.8%Christopher Werth: 0.6%Gothamist: 1.1%Status Quo Bias5.8%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 3.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 9.9%Christopher Werth: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.7%Pessimism Bias9.9%This article: 16.9%Christopher Werth: 7.8%Gothamist: 8.5%Negativity Bias16.9%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 2.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 1.5%Gothamist: 1.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 2.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 11.6%Christopher Werth: 1.2%Gothamist: 1.3%Recency Bias11.6%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 1.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 28.5%Christopher Werth: 3.0%Gothamist: 4.4%Appeal to Authority28.5%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 1.3%Gothamist: 3.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 6.4%Gothamist: 6.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 1.6%Gothamist: 2.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 26.2%Christopher Werth: 3.4%Gothamist: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)26.2%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 25.6%Christopher Werth: 2.7%Gothamist: 1.2%Unattributed Quote25.6%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.2%Gothamist: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 15.1%Christopher Werth: 3.2%Gothamist: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice15.1%This article: 5.8%Christopher Werth: 8.2%Gothamist: 1.5%Indoctrination5.8%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 1.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Christopher Werth: 0.0%Gothamist: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

172 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers26%attributed speech128writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 0.0% coveragePort Authority • 21 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageFlightAware • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverage
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FlightAware

100%flagged-word coverage
23 attributed words52% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%17.5%35.0%Unattributed Quote-34.4 ptsWriter: 34.4%FlightAware: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-20.3 ptsWriter: 20.3%FlightAware: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-7.8 ptsWriter: 7.8%FlightAware: 0.0%0.0%

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

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