Perth, WA

Anger as person appears to perform ‘Griddy’ on dead whale at City Beach

7NEWS Rachel Tassicker

29 Sept 2026 19:45 AEST Summary

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Another four metre long white shark is being tagged.

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All three things this headline claims are in the report.

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Niral Score 14.3 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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whale7carcass4person4another3behaviour2called2dead2expected2know2large2metre2morning2process2quite2remains2sharks2show2tagged2thing2white2

Sentiment -1.6 hostilefavourable Sourcing 41 unattributednamed sources Mood 32.4 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Outlet	Niral Score
7NEWSas they published this story	14.3

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