SFGate⁠52%

'Sopranos' actor Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters and tough guys, dead at 80 ⁠13%

By Associated Press⁠73%

8/1/2026, 7:07:38 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Anecdotal, and Unattributed Quote, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 28.9% saturation with 33 hits. Analysis detected 320 faulty-reasoning hits from 114 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 24.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠13% (22,751 of 26,004 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 87.50% of the article peer group.

'Sopranos' actor Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters and tough guys, dead at 80 
Vincent Pastore, a veteran actor who played mobsters and tough guys, and was best known for portraying Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on “The Sopranos,” has died. 
He was 80. 
Bob McGowan, who had managed Pastore since his run on “The Sopranos,” told The Associated Press that he learned of his death Saturday from another client and actor on the show, Vincent Curatola. 
He said that he had been found in his home on New York’s City Island after not being heard from for a few days. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 28.9%Associated Press: 2.0%SFGate: 1.5%Confirmation Bias28.9%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.8%SFGate: 0.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 28.9%Associated Press: 2.6%SFGate: 2.7%Availability Heuristic28.9%This article: 22.8%Associated Press: 0.7%SFGate: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic22.8%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.5%SFGate: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.0%SFGate: 0.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 24.6%Associated Press: 5.8%SFGate: 5.4%Framing Effect24.6%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%SFGate: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.5%SFGate: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%SFGate: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.8%SFGate: 1.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 21.1%Associated Press: 1.5%SFGate: 2.4%Pessimism Bias21.1%This article: 24.6%Associated Press: 7.6%SFGate: 11.4%Negativity Bias24.6%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.5%SFGate: 0.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.8%SFGate: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%SFGate: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.9%SFGate: 0.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%SFGate: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 24.6%Associated Press: 1.7%SFGate: 1.8%Halo Effect24.6%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%SFGate: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.3%SFGate: 0.8%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 22.8%Associated Press: 0.2%SFGate: 0.9%Primacy Effect22.8%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%SFGate: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%SFGate: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.6%SFGate: 1.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.7%SFGate: 0.6%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.5%SFGate: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.3%SFGate: 4.0%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%SFGate: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%SFGate: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 3.8%SFGate: 3.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.5%SFGate: 0.2%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.0%SFGate: 1.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%SFGate: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%SFGate: 0.1%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%SFGate: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%SFGate: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 28.9%Associated Press: 1.5%SFGate: 1.5%Anecdotal28.9%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.0%SFGate: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%SFGate: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%SFGate: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%SFGate: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 28.9%Associated Press: 1.2%SFGate: 5.3%Unattributed Quote28.9%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.8%SFGate: 2.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 24.6%Associated Press: 2.4%SFGate: 10.0%Biased Writer Voice24.6%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%SFGate: 0.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.7%SFGate: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%SFGate: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%SFGate: 0.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

114 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker50%attributed speech57writer words
Selected voice

Bob McGowan

100%flagged-word coverage
57 attributed words100% of attributed speech95% writer coverage
0%30.0%60.0%Unattributed Quote+57.9 ptsWriter: 0.0%Bob McGowan: 57.9%57.9%Biased Writer Voice-49.1 ptsWriter: 49.1%Bob McGowan: 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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