At SIFF, the show goes on, with fewer staff ⁠83%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0% Vaughan Jones⁠0%

5/6/2026, 12:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Halo Effect, and Status Quo Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 50% saturation with 36 hits. Analysis detected 144 faulty-reasoning hits from 72 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75% and a BS Rank of ⁠83% (3,722 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 83.00% of the article peer group.

SIFF is more than just a local indie movie theater chain - its yearly festival brings hundreds of movies, big and small, to screens across the city. 
But even as SIFF the organization faces monetary challenges, the show must go on at SIFF the festival. 
We'll hear more about the state of SIFF and get some festival recommendations from arts reporter Chase Hutchinson. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.8%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 37.5%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect37.5%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 25.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias25.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 25.0%Patricia Murphy: 5.5%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias25.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.9%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 6.8%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.6%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 37.5%Patricia Murphy: 4.9%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect37.5%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 25.0%Patricia Murphy: 8.9%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority25.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 7.0%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.3%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.7%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.2%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.1%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.1%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.2%KUOW: 1.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 50.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.7%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice50.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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