BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Biased Writer Voice, and Primacy Effect, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 65.9% saturation with 114 hits. Analysis detected 498 faulty-reasoning hits from 173 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 90.2% and a BS Rank of 94% (1,335 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.90% of the article peer group.
Bill Plaschke, an L.A.
Times Sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame.
He has been named national Sports Columnist of the Year nine times by the Associated Press, and twice by the Society of Professional Journalists and National Headliner Awards.
He is the author of six books, including a collection of his columns entitled “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoilsports, Foul Balls and Oddballs.”
Plaschke was also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, “Around the Horn.”
He is in the national Big Brothers/Big Sisters Alumni Hall of Fame and has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters as well as receiving a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women’s Law Center.
Plaschke has appeared in a movie (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO series (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural moment he still does not quite understand, his name can be found in a rap song “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth.
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