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ATO delays credit card payment ban after opposition from small businesses

Reported by 8 outlets from 4 newsrooms. Every outlet’s headline, how the story developed, and how loaded the writing was in each report we could read in full.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. Struck through: the loaded words our plainer version leaves out. Fewest struck first.

How it developed · 46 steps
  1. ABC News (Business) filed ATO will not budge on credit card ban after meeting with business groups
  2. ABC News (Business) changed its headline ATO convenes snap meeting over won't budge on credit card ban after snap meeting with business groups
  3. ABC News (Business) rewrote its report (96 words in, 12 out)
  4. ABC News (Business) changed its headline ATO won't budge on credit card ban after snap meeting with business groups
  5. ABC News (Business) changed its headline ATO won't will not budge on credit card ban after meeting with business groups
  6. ABC News (Business) rewrote its report (44 words in, 0 out)
  7. Brisbane Times filed ‘Double standard’: Business groups urge ATO to reverse its credit card ban
  8. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  9. WAtoday filed
  10. The Age filed
  11. WAtoday filed ATO stands firm on credit card surcharges
  12. The Age filed
  13. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  14. Brisbane Times filed
  15. The West Australian filed Labor has 'real concerns' over ATO credit card ban
  16. The Age filed ATO stands firm on credit card surcharges
  17. WAtoday filed
  18. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  19. Brisbane Times filed
  20. The West Australian filed ATO credit card payment ban sparks Labor split as Clare O’Neil warns of rising costs for Australian businesses
  21. The West Australian filed
  22. ABC News filed Government under pressure to intervene over ATO credit card ban
  23. 7NEWS filed Labor MP voices concern over ATO credit card ban following surcharge rule
  24. ABC News changed its headline Labor split on Government under pressure to intervene over ATO credit card banas businesses call for leadership
  25. WAtoday filed Labor ministers contradict each other over ATO credit card surcharge ban
  26. The Age filed
  27. Brisbane Times filed
  28. The Guardian Australia filed Ministers urge ATO to reverse credit card ban amid opposition from small businesses
  29. The Age filed Chalmers steps in: ATO credit card ban delayed after business objections
  30. WAtoday filed
  31. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  32. The Guardian Australia filed Jim Chalmers overrules ATO’s ban on credit card payments following business objections
  33. Brisbane Times filed Chalmers steps in: ATO credit card ban delayed after business objections
  34. ABC News filed ATO delays credit card ban as government backs down after business opposition
  35. The West Australian filed ATO delays start of credit card fee ban after opposition
  36. 7NEWS filed ATO delays credit card payment ban after opposition from small businesses
  37. ABC News changed its headline Breaking: ATO credit card ban delayed delay as government backs down after business backlash
  38. ABC News rewrote its report (92 words in, 45 out)
  39. ABC News changed its headline Breaking: ATO credit card ban delay as government backs down after business backlash
  40. ABC News changed its headline ATO delays credit card ban delay as government backs down after business backlash
  41. ABC News rewrote its report (45 words in, 25 out)
  42. The Age filed ATO to delay credit card payment ban
  43. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  44. WAtoday filed
  45. Brisbane Times filed
  46. The Sydney Morning Herald filed Chalmers’ credit card back-down unedifying and concerning

The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, WAtoday, Brisbane Times and The West Australian filed reports we only receive a summary of, so those are not scored here.

Each row is the same event as one outlet told it, and the shaded row is ours: one of these reports in our plainer version, scored by the same engines, with the report it came from named. The bottom row is the spread between the outlets — our own row is excluded from it, because including it would let us widen the gap we are advertising.

Each cell shows what the outlet filed and, under it in green where it differs, what our version of that same report reads. Those are the numbers on the article page and in the extension: one article, one pair of readings, wherever you meet it.

OutletHeadline Language LoadAdjectivesper 100 wordsMood
7NEWS ATO delays credit card payment ban after opposition from small businesses 13.11.547.2
ABC News ATO delays credit card ban as government backs down after business opposition 10.60.651.8
The Guardian Australia Jim Chalmers overrules ATO’s ban on credit card payments following business objections 13.41.551.1
The Guardian Australia Ministers urge ATO to reverse credit card ban amid opposition from small businesses 10.10.748.8
7NEWS Labor MP voices concern over ATO credit card ban following surcharge rule 80.450.1
ABC News Government under pressure to intervene over ATO credit card ban 10.20.850
ABC News (Business) ATO will not budge on credit card ban after meeting with business groups 10.30.849.4
Mundane Read our version of The Guardian Australia’s report, which arrived with a Language Load of 13.4 Jim Chalmers overrules ATO’s ban on credit card payments following business objections 8.70.951.1
Spread 5.41.14.6

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