Margaret Lyons

Margaret Lyons is a television critic at The New York Times and writes about TV in the Watching newsletter. She covers shows across every genre, platform, and era with recommendations, reviews, and analysis. Having been a TV critic at The Times since 2016, she started her career at her college newspaper at the University of Chicago before working for Chicagoist.com, Time Out Chicago, Entertainment Weekly and Vulture. Lyons is committed to upholding the standards of integrity outlined in The New York Times' Ethical Journalism Handbook and never covers the work of anyone she knows socially or accepts gifts, payments or favors for coverage. She can be contacted at margaret.lyons@nytimes.com.

Biography:  https://www.nytimes.com/by/margaret-lyons

87%

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

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

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

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

25%

Examples:

  • Shannen Doherty died on July 13, 2022
  • Shannen Doherty died on July 13, 2023

Deceptions

65%

Examples:

  • The Bear season 3 is a volcano of self-loathing.
  • The show loves tight spaces, the pressures of close quarters. Its hugs are all rib-cracking, suffocating, too much.

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