Jon Pareles

Jon Pareles is the chief pop music critic at The New York Times. He explores popular music in all its manifestations and tries to understand it, learn from it, seek out what's worth paying attention to and explain it to readers and himself. Pareles has a background in playing various musical instruments, performing in classical, rock, folk and jazz groups, as well as being a college-radio disc jockey and music director. He strives for accuracy in every fact, date, instrument, musical element and quotation in his criticism but acknowledges that it is inherently subjective. Pareles receives advance copies of albums (and sometimes complimentary physical copies) and concert tickets but ensures that his writing is strictly his own honest decisions based on the music he chooses to cover. His contact information is provided for those who wish to send him music downloads.

Biography:  https://www.nytimes.com/by/jon-pareles

47%

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 poor reputation for journalistic standards and is not considered a reliable news source.

Bias

80%

Examples:

  • The author has a slight bias towards Usher, mentioning his extraordinary musical gifts and perseverance in the article.
  • The author quotes Usher saying that he has a loyal partner when in fact there is no mention of this anywhere else in the album or song.

Conflicts of Interest

0%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

0%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Deceptions

50%

Examples:

  • The article exaggerates Usher's musical abilities by stating that he 'cruises through every musical challenge'.
  • The author quotes Usher saying that he has a loyal partner when in fact there is no mention of this anywhere else in the album or song.

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