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'Exposed for the sham it is': Celebrations as High Court blocks coal mine expansion

Reported by 7 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 · 22 steps
  1. The West Australian filed Local environmentalists trump coal mine in High Court
  2. The West Australian filed MACH Energy loses High Court bid over Mount Pleasant coal mine expansion in NSW after climate challenge
  3. The Guardian Australia filed Hunter Valley community group wins high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine
  4. The Guardian Australia changed its headline Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine
  5. The Guardian Australia rewrote its report (125 words in, 15 out)
  6. WAtoday filed ‘Pandora’s box’: High Court decision could reopen coal mine approval cases
  7. Brisbane Times filed
  8. The Age filed
  9. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  10. SBS News filed 'Exposed for the sham it is': Celebrations as High Court blocks coal mine expansion
  11. WAtoday filed NSW backs more gas as High Court blocks coal mine expansion
  12. The Age filed
  13. The Sydney Morning Herald filed
  14. Brisbane Times filed
  15. WAtoday changed its headline ‘Groundbreaking’: ‘Pandora’s box’: High Court quashes decision could reopen coal mine expansion over climate emissionsapproval cases
  16. The Age changed its headline ‘Groundbreaking’: ‘Pandora’s box’: High Court quashes decision could reopen coal mine expansion over climate emissionsapproval cases
  17. The Sydney Morning Herald changed its headline ‘Groundbreaking’: ‘Pandora’s box’: High Court quashes decision could reopen coal mine expansion over climate emissionsapproval cases
  18. Brisbane Times changed its headline ‘Groundbreaking’: ‘Pandora’s box’: High Court quashes decision could reopen coal mine expansion over climate emissionsapproval cases
  19. WAtoday filed ‘Triply nervous’: large coal mine braced for challenge after High Court ruling
  20. Brisbane Times filed
  21. The Age filed
  22. The Sydney Morning Herald filed

WAtoday, Brisbane Times, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald 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
SBS News 'Exposed for the sham it is': Celebrations as High Court blocks coal mine expansion 9.21.248
The Guardian Australia Hunter Valley community group wins high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine 101.745
Mundane Read our version of The Guardian Australia’s report, which arrived with a Language Load of 10 Hunter Valley community group wins high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine 8.61.745
Spread 0.80.53

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