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Trump disputes his own Justice Department’s findings on Reflecting Pool
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Extra Extra has grouped 7 reports on this story from 7 news outlets across the political spectrum. By political lean, that breaks down as 4 left-leaning, 2 center, and 1 right-leaning sources.
With a coverage-diversity score of 87 out of 100, this is one of the more evenly reported stories in our index right now — left, center, and right outlets are all giving it attention.
On reliability, 6 of the 7 rated outlets carry a high or mostly-factual reliability rating (A or B) and 1 outlet fall into our mixed or lower-reliability tier (C or D). Ratings are drawn from independent assessments and are meant to help you weigh each report, not to tell you which to trust.
Coverage of this story has developed over roughly 25 hours, so the perspectives below capture how the framing shifted as the story matured.
Below, the same story is laid out side by side as left, center, and right outlets reported it. Read across the columns and watch what changes: the headline emphasis, which facts lead, the adjectives, and what each side leaves out. The story itself rarely changes — the framing almost always does.
Outlets covering this story: The Daily Beast, Wisconsin Examiner, Florida Phoenix, Georgia Recorder, South China Morning Post, Chalkbeat, The Detroit News.
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The Daily BeastCAug 1, 5:52 PM
Trump Disputes Prosecutors’ Findings on Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Damage
President Donald Trump has gone on a bizarre rant after his excuse for the green-slime disaster at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool took a turn for the worse in court. The 80-year-old president co
Wisconsin ExaminerBJul 31, 10:20 PM
US Senate panel advances bill to reject Education Department transfers
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan effort to rein in President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education has cleared its first major legislative hurdle in a bipartisan U.S. Senate co
Florida PhoenixBJul 31, 7:52 PM
US Senate panel advances bill to reject Education Department transfers
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan effort to rein in President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education has cleared its first major legislative hurdle in a bipartisan U.S. Senate co
Georgia RecorderBJul 31, 6:32 PM
US Senate panel advances bill to reject Education Department transfers
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan effort to rein in President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education has cleared its first major legislative hurdle in a bipartisan U.S. Senate co
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South China Morning PostBAug 1, 7:52 PM
Trump disputes his own Justice Department’s findings on Reflecting Pool
US President Donald Trump posted on Saturday that he disagrees with his own Justice Department’s findings that a flawed installation, not vandalism, caused the lining of the newly renovated Lincoln
ChalkbeatBJul 31, 10:05 PM
Trump’s moves to break up Education Department generate new bipartisan resistance in Senate
Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t have the votes to abolish the U.S. Department of Education, thou
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