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Weekend Listen: Aurora Avenue residents call for urgent gun violence measures, Longview rallies after paper mill disaster, students in Bothell are fighting for their SRO, and great blue herons find a home in Redmond ⁠56%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0%

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

BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Hasty Generalization, and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 42.9% saturation with 105 hits. Analysis detected 727 faulty-reasoning hits from 245 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠56% (9,463 of 21,198 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 55.40% of the article peer group.

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First, residents of North Seattle along Aurora Avenue are on edge, after a recent surge of gun violence in a neighborhood that has been a longtime hotspot for human trafficking. 
City officials say they’re working urgently to close streets and assign police patrols 
Next, the latest from the paper mill disaster in Longview, where earlier this week, the names were released of the 11 people who died. 
The scope of the tragedy has sparked concerns about the lasting impact on this Southwest Washington town. 
Next, students and families in Bothell have been pushing back against a decision to not renew the contract of a popular school resource officer. 
And finally, typically when you spot a great blue heron in western Washington, you see one flying or fishing alone. 
In Redmond a huge group of herons have picked a place to nest - in an unusual spot. 
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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: 12.2%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic12.2%This article: 8.2%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic8.2%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: 23.7%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect23.7%This article: 9.4%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion9.4%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 7.3%Patricia Murphy: 5.5%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias7.3%This article: 6.9%Patricia Murphy: 2.9%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias6.9%This article: 42.9%Patricia Murphy: 6.8%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias42.9%This article: 4.1%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias4.1%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: 9.8%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias9.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.9%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect0.0%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: 5.3%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias5.3%This article: 8.2%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect8.2%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: 5.3%Patricia Murphy: 8.9%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority5.3%This article: 4.1%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma4.1%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: 30.2%Patricia Murphy: 7.0%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization30.2%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: 11.8%Patricia Murphy: 4.3%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion11.8%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: 12.2%Patricia Murphy: 4.2%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal12.2%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 17.1%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)17.1%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: 12.2%Patricia Murphy: 2.2%KUOW: 1.0%Unattributed Quote12.2%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 39.2%Patricia Murphy: 4.7%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice39.2%This article: 2.4%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.5%Indoctrination2.4%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: 24.1%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…24.1%

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