WPLN News⁠12%

NashVillager Podcast: Building the statehouse ⁠22%

By Nina Cardona⁠8%

7/21/2026, 11:48:20 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Anecdotal, and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 32.6% saturation with 31 hits. Analysis detected 101 faulty-reasoning hits from 95 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 35.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠22% (17,221 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 78.70% of the article peer group.

Why did it take Tennessee so long to settle on a capitol and build a statehouse? 
From a political fight (that compared Nashville to Sodom) to an untimely death and unusual grave, the story behind Tennessee’s physical seat of government has more twists than you might expect. 
Plus, the local news for July 21, 2026, and reclaiming the American flag. 
Credits: 
This is a production of Nashville Public Radio. 
Host/producer: Nina Cardona 
Editor: LaTonya Turner 
Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, Megan Jones and the staff of WPLN and WNXP 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 2.3%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 5.2%WPLN: 3.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 2.6%WPLN: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 2.5%WPLN: 0.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 32.6%Nina Cardona: 9.6%WPLN: 4.0%Framing Effect32.6%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 1.2%WPLN: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 1.1%WPLN: 2.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.4%WPLN: 1.0%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 32.6%Nina Cardona: 8.0%WPLN: 7.4%Negativity Bias32.6%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.7%WPLN: 0.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 1.1%WPLN: 2.4%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.9%WPLN: 1.6%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 1.5%WPLN: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 2.2%WPLN: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 2.0%WPLN: 1.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 2.9%WPLN: 3.9%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 2.1%WPLN: 4.7%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 3.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 1.8%WPLN: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 32.6%Nina Cardona: 2.1%WPLN: 2.9%Anecdotal32.6%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.4%WPLN: 1.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.5%WPLN: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 2.1%WPLN: 1.5%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 2.1%WPLN: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 2.0%WPLN: 1.9%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.7%WPLN: 0.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nina Cardona: 0.0%WPLN: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 8.4%Nina Cardona: 2.9%WPLN: 1.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…8.4%

95 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers31%attributed speech66writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageNashville Public Radio • 8 words • 100.0% coverageNina Cardona • 3 words • 0.0% coverageLaTonya Turner • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWPLN and WNXP • 15 words • 0.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
8 attributed words28% of attributed speech47% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Nashville Public Radio: 100.0%100.0%

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

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Analysis

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