BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Appeal to Authority, and Appeal to Emotion, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 81.4% saturation with 96 hits. Analysis detected 322 faulty-reasoning hits from 118 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 24.4% and a BS Rank of 8% (20,236 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 92.50% of the article peer group.
Gustavo Arellano is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, covering Southern California everything and a bunch of the West and beyond.
He was a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary and the Mike Royko Award for Commentary and Column Writing and was part of the team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News.
Arellano previously worked at OC Weekly, where he was an investigative reporter for 15 years and editor for six, wrote a column called ¡Ask a Mexican!
and is the author of “Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.”
He’s the child of two Mexican immigrants, one of whom came to this country in the trunk of a Chevy.
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