How a report is produced
Every report follows the same sequence, and the order matters: filing times are established before absences are judged, claims are fixed before outlets are compared, and nothing reaches you that did not survive being run twice.
The sequence
You send a link to the story, and the coverage you want read if you already have it. The report comes back within two business days. It is delivered as a service, so there is no account to create and nothing to learn.
Before any of the below, every article’s first-published and last-updated times are recorded. That is what separates an outlet that chose not to report something from one that had stopped updating before the fact existed, and it runs first, so an absence with a scheduling explanation never reaches the comparison at all.
The articles
- CNBC Investing Club
- The Motley Fool
- Quartz
- AeroTime
- 24/7 Wall St
Claims extracted
CNBC Investing Club“an adjusted EPS estimate of $2.11”
The Motley Fool“the expected figure was $2.13 per share”
Merged
Adjusted EPS estimate for the quarter.
Two wordings, two different figures, one claim. The verbatim sentence stays attached to it.
The matrix
- CNBCDiverges
- Motley FoolDiverges
- QuartzNot stated
- AeroTimeNot stated
- 24/7 Wall StNot stated
The analysis records the divergence and does not resolve which figure was right.
Quotes checked
Both spans located verbatim in the source articles.
252 of 252 on this run
Two passes
Pass one
Pass two
Present in both, so published.
What it deliberately does not do
It does not rate outlets
There is no score and no spectrum. Every finding is specific to one article about one story, and the same outlet reads differently across two stories.
It does not check whether claims are true
This describes how a story was assembled: what was carried, what was left out, and where an outlet's own text disagrees with its summary. Fact-checking is a different discipline.
It is not media monitoring
No mention counts, no sentiment, no volume dashboard. It is a close read of a small number of articles about one story.
The free tools run the same checks
Tone, framing, attribution, source balance and omission are the same five signals in both places. The difference is scale: the tools read one article, and a report reads every outlet that covered the story and sets them against each other.
If you want to see the method before you send anything, the analyzer is free and needs no account.
Bring a story you already know well
The fastest way to judge the output is on coverage you have read closely enough to argue with.