Method / Indicator

Jingoistic

Whether the writing reports to a reader or writes from inside one nation’s camp.

0 reports to a reader writes from a camp 100

What raises it

• First-person national voice ("our boys", "we must")
• Othering words in a national or migration context
• Casualties on one side described differently from the other

What is never counted

• Naming a country
• Sport, unless the writing takes a national side

Highest in the last week

• 23 Sept, 01:00 · Victoria The Coalition wants 'discrete' First Nations content in schools. But children must be taught to critically assess concepts such as national pride | Tony Birch Jingoistic 32.9
• 22 Sept, 18:34 · Melbourne, VIC Teen jailed over home invasion that traumatised Melbourne family Jingoistic 30.5
• 24 Sept, 13:37 · South Australia Another setback for Cape du Couedic wave buoy Jingoistic 30.4

Lowest in the last week

• 27 Sept, 01:30 Why NVIDIA's most powerful GPU is sold to consumers Jingoistic 0
• 27 Sept, 00:43 · Israel Ireland players vote to go ahead with Israel matches despite ‘different views’ Jingoistic 0
• 27 Sept, 00:30 Is your Roku TV talking to you? Here's why and how to turn it off Jingoistic 0

Every reading is of the writing, not of whether the article is correct. The full method, including how the Niral Score is built, is on the Method page. Anything here can be checked against the API, which returns the same numbers with the words that produced them.

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