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The Big Broadcast: July 12 1%

By Jill Ahrold Bailey1%

7/11/2026, 4:29:44 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Framing Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 5.4% saturation with 20 hits. Analysis detected 89 faulty-reasoning hits from 373 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 1.8% and a BS Rank of 1% (21,785 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 99.50% of the article peer group.

7:00 p.m. 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar “The Lost By A Hair Matter” Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. 
A lumber yard has burned to the ground, and it was worth one third of a million dollars . 
(Original broadcast date August 9, 1959. 
CBS network. 
Running time 19:21) 
7:30 p.m. 
Halls of Ivy The operator of “A La Cart,” the Ivy College hot dog stand, is honored for winning the Congressional Medal of Honor thirty years previously . 
(Original broadcast date January 23, 1952 . 
NBC network. 
Running time 25:53) 
8:00 p.m. 
Gunsmoke “Fiery Arrest” 
Marshal Dillon and Chester are taken prisoner by two men, who regularly beat a woman who stays with them . 
A Big Broadcast premiere. 
(Original air date January 17, 1960. 
CBS network. 
Running time 25:40) 
8:20 p.m. 
R. 
Buckminster (Richard) Fuller talks with Studs Terkel 
8:30 p.m. 
Dragnet 
“The Big Cast” 
Over a dozen men have disappeared without a trace. 
A frightening conclusion to a long search. 
(Original air date February 08, 1951 . 
NBC network. 
Running time 25:46) 
9:00 p.m . 
Doctor Christian 
Jean Hersholt stars; the first show of the long running series about the life of a country doctor. 
(Original air date November 07, 1937 . 
CBS network. 
Running time 29:23) 
9:30 p.m . 
X Minus One 
“Wherever You May Be” 
A researcher, newly arrived in the Ozarks, meets Abby, a girl with very unusual abilities. 
(Original air date September 1, 1955. 
NBC Network. 
Running time 23:36) 
10:00 p.m . 
Proudly We Hail 
“The Medal of Honor” 
The history of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and a dramatization of the action that resulted in its first award, the “Great Train Robbery” during the Civil War . 
(Original air date April 27, 1952 . 
Army syndication . 
Running time 29:27) 
10:30 p.m . 
Screen Directors Playhouse 
“The Human Comedy” 
Francis X. 
Bushman and Mickey Rooney star in a radio adaptation of Louis B Mayer’s favorite film. 
A telegram delivery boy finds out a little of what life is all about . 
(Original air date September 9, 1949 . 
NBC network. 
Running time 26:00) 
*Note that running times are approximations. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 2.2%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 1.1%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 2.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 1.2%WAMU: 1.3%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.2%WAMU: 0.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 1.9%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.3%WAMU: 5.2%Framing Effect1.9%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 1.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.8%WAMU: 1.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 2.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 1.9%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 1.7%WAMU: 7.4%Negativity Bias1.9%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.9%WAMU: 0.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.4%WAMU: 0.7%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 2.1%WAMU: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.7%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.7%WAMU: 2.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 1.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.7%WAMU: 4.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 4.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.9%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 2.5%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.4%WAMU: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.3%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.0%WAMU: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 1.9%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.3%WAMU: 1.2%Unattributed Quote1.9%This article: 1.9%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.3%WAMU: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection1.9%This article: 5.4%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 2.7%WAMU: 2.7%Biased Writer Voice5.4%This article: 1.9%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.3%WAMU: 1.0%Indoctrination1.9%This article: 1.9%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.3%WAMU: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias1.9%This article: 1.9%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.3%WAMU: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias1.9%This article: 5.4%Jill Ahrold Bailey: 0.8%WAMU: 0.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.4%

373 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers4.6%attributed speech356writer words
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Selected voice

NBC

0%flagged-word coverage
8 attributed words47% of attributed speech5.6% writer coverage
0%5.0%10.0%Biased Writer Voice-5.6 ptsWriter: 5.6%NBC: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -5.6 ptsWriter: 5.6%NBC: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-2.0 ptsWriter: 2.0%NBC: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-2.0 ptsWriter: 2.0%NBC: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-2.0 ptsWriter: 2.0%NBC: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-2.0 ptsWriter: 2.0%NBC: 0.0%0.0%Politically Right Leaning -2.0 ptsWriter: 2.0%NBC: 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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