Method / Indicator
Political diction
Which side’s vocabulary the writer chose where a choice existed. Not whether the article is correct.
-10 left-coded right-coded 10
What raises it
- Choosing one side’s term where a neutral one exists: "death tax" for inheritance tax, "climate crisis" for climate change
- Terms are matched to the market, so Australian copy is read with the Australian pack
What is never counted
- Which party the article favours
- Quoted speech
When it appears beside a story
Listed only under stories about politics or immigration, the subjects where one side’s words can be chosen over another’s. On any other story it would be measuring nothing, and it used to compliment stories about wombats for their plain political language.
Most right-coded in the last week
Only stories about politics or immigration that read far enough this way to be listed beside the story.
- Three oppositions are contesting Victoria's election. The premier leads one Political diction +0.71
- How one Australian state's corruption inquiry shook a political party Political diction +0.11
- One Nation to establish headquarters in multimillion-dollar Brisbane office bought by Gina Rinehart Political diction +0.08
Most left-coded in the last week
- David Shoebridge says ‘we’re here to replace Labor’ in first remarks after being elected new Greens leader Political diction -0.3
- Mixed start for pre-Cop as just two non-Pacific leaders accept Australian invitation to climate summit Political diction -0.24
- Greens see red-hot anger as an opportunity to take on Hanson, Labor Political diction -0.21
Every reading describes how the article is written, not whether it 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.
The other indicators
Niral ScoreAdjectivesRepeated wordsSentimentGenerationalGenderJingoisticReligiousSourcingMood