ABC News99%

5 people die in a mass drowning in an Ohio river 90%

7/21/2026, 5:47:40 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Pessimism Bias, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 66% saturation with 196 hits. Analysis detected 984 faulty-reasoning hits from 297 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.6% and a BS Rank of 90% (2,370 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 89.20% of the video peer group.

Turn next year to the harrowing 911 calls just released tonight revealing the scope of a horrific family drowning tragedy in Ohio. Two children watching as their mother and father die. A total of five people dying, all trying to save a struggling swimmer. Here's Trevor Ault. 
>> Tonight, these are the harrowing 911 calls from a mass drowning in an Ohio river. 
>> We're right here on the riverbank and we think we see a floating body. 
>> A driver reporting a young boy screaming for help moments after his parents died. 
>> It was like a little baby. I think it was like a boy. He was like screaming like crying like mama mama. 
>> Police say Sunday evening a group was fishing in the Scioto River just north of Columbus when one of the adults dove into that river and started to struggle. 
Two children left on shore both under 10 years old. They saw that heartbreaking struggle as their mother and father jumped in to help. 
>> Two people went in to try to save them. 
Those people started to struggle in the river. 
Now we had two additional go in the water. Other people attempt to save them yet they don't have the skills to do that. So we end up with multiple deaths. 
>> Children running into the street for help. 
Rescue crews scoured the river with helicopters and drones. 
Two women died at the hospital. 
Monday the bodies of three men were found in the river. 
>> David, every adult who entered the water in this tragedy drowned. Those two children are now in the care of child services. David, really just awful. 
Trevor Ault tonight. Thank you, Trevor. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 10.1%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias10.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 24.2%ABC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic24.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 10.4%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias10.4%This article: 10.4%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias10.4%This article: 24.9%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect24.9%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 3.0%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias3.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 29.6%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias29.6%This article: 66.0%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias66.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 8.1%ABC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error8.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 15.8%ABC News: 2.2%Halo Effect15.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 10.1%ABC News: 3.3%Appeal to Authority10.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 10.4%ABC News: 0.3%Slippery Slope10.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 9.1%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization9.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 55.6%ABC News: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion55.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 10.4%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)10.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 12.5%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof12.5%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 7.7%ABC News: 1.2%Anecdotal7.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 12.8%ABC News: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)12.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

297 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers21%attributed speech234writer words
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Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 47 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coveragePolice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageDavid • 27 words • 0.0% coverageTrevor Ault • 6 words • 0.0% coverage
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David

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27 attributed words43% of attributed speech100% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

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

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Analysis

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