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Newsweek: AIPAC Dumps Last-Minute $9M Behind Mike Rogers in Rebuke of Abdul El-Sayed

Grade C (70/100). Article: the reported $9 million UDP transfer to a pro-Rogers super PAC, the debate exchanges, latest polls and AIPAC's change in strategy

Lehrer score 70/100 (−18 unnamed source/unsourced figure: paragraph 2: the transfer rests on the Times 'citing two people with knowledge of the group's plans' (unnamed); −12 loaded wording: headline and 'Rogers' team had other ideas': 'Dumps ... in Rebuke' (loaded verbs in the outlet's voice)). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → C.

paragraph 2: the transfer rests on the Times 'citing two people with knowledge of the group's plans' (unnamed); headline and 'Rogers' team had other ideas': 'Dumps ... in Rebuke' (loaded verbs in the outlet's voice)

Splits: Article: the reported $9 million UDP transfer to a pro-Rogers super PAC, the debate exchanges, latest polls and AIPAC's change in strategy

  • Broken. Rule: unnamed source/unsourced figure (paragraph 2: the transfer rests on the Times 'citing two people with knowledge of the group's plans' (unnamed))
  • Broken. Rule: loaded wording (headline and 'Rogers' team had other ideas': 'Dumps ... in Rebuke' (loaded verbs in the outlet's voice))

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