Rebecca Keegan

Senior Editor, Film Rebecca Keegan is the Senior Film Editor of The Hollywood Reporter. Prior to joining THR, Keegan served as Hollywood Correspondent for Vanity Fair and Film Writer for the Los Angeles Times. She is also the author of two books: 'Young Frankenstein: The Story of the Making of the Film' and 'The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron. A native New Yorker, Keegan graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Biography:  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/author/rebecca-keegan/

75%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • The article mentions 'low-budget indie Western Rust' to describe the movie which implies that it is not a mainstream or high budget production. This could be seen as an example of monetary bias as it suggests that money plays a role in determining whether safety measures are taken on set.
  • The article mentions 'plain indifference' to the safety of employees which implies that there is a lack of concern for worker welfare. This could be seen as an example of bias towards profit over people.

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • The article mentions 'plain indifference' to the safety of employees which implies that there is a lack of concern for worker welfare. This could be seen as an example of bias towards profit over people.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Gutierrez-Reed was responsible for storage, maintenance and handling of firearms and ammunition on set and loading firearms with blanks that have a charge but no projectile or inert dummy rounds.
  • The trial of a movie weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin will focus on how live ammunition found its way onto the set.

Deceptions

85%

Examples:

  • Hannah Gutierrez-Reed loaded what she thought were dummy rounds into Alec Baldwin's gun
  • The shooting was a rare and horrifying accident

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Broke On: Sunday, 01 October 2023 The Hunger Games prequel, `The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes`, has secured an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA. The interim agreement comes after a `Do Not Work` order was issued due to Lionsgate's decision to produce the film under a non-union contract. The prequel is based on the novel by Suzanne Collins and is set 64 years before the events of the original Hunger Games trilogy.