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KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio is an independent, nonprofit news organization that produces award-winning journalism, innovative podcasts, engaging community events and more. The station's mission is to create and serve a more informed public by broadening conversations and deepening understanding. KUOW aspires to create factual and insightful journalism relevant to a wide range of audiences, covering topics such as police accountability, climate change, the pandemic's impact on work and life, and local threats to democracy. The station is committed to racial equity in order to serve the entire community. Over 90% of its funding comes from individual contributors and local business supporters who believe an informed public makes the community stronger.

76%

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 news site 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 its reporting.

Bias

86%

Examples:

  • The use of the phrase 'for many, it confirmed, fairly or not... devalue and conceal disparaging views about community members' suggests a potential for biased reporting.

Conflicts of Interest

75%

Examples:

  • Executive director of Indian American Community Services (IACS), Lalita Uppala expressed cautious optimism about the OPA's findings.
  • The OPA recommendations are a separate from an investigation by King County Prosecutors Office into the driver of the car, Officer Kevin Dave.

Contradictions

86%

Examples:

  • Covid cases are on the rise in early June 2024
  • COVID test positivity in the US was 5.4% for the week ending June 8, an increase of 0.8% from the previous week.
  • Infection rates and emergency department visits in King County have been rising since the end of April.

Deceptions

62%

Examples:

  • As Covid continues to settle into everyday life, health experts are noticing it has certain patterns, and a few other changes from the first few years the virus struck.
  • Summer Covid is a thing.
  • The hurt his words have inflicted on Ms. Kandula's family cannot be erased.
  • We are heading into a summer surge.

Recent Articles

  • Seattle Police Officer Fired for Derogatory Comments About Indian Grad Student's Death

    Seattle Police Officer Fired for Derogatory Comments About Indian Grad Student's Death

    Broke On: Thursday, 19 January 2023 Seattle Police Officer Daniel Auderer was fired for derogatory comments about the death of Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old Indian graduate student killed by a police S.U.V., despite his intentions being unintentional. His remarks, including calling her life 'limited in value,' caused public outrage and protests in Seattle and India. Interim Police Chief Sue Rahr terminated Auderer due to the comments' damaging impact on community trust.
  • CDC Warns of Summer COVID-19 Surge: Test Positivity Rises in 34 States, New Variants Spreading

    CDC Warns of Summer COVID-19 Surge: Test Positivity Rises in 34 States, New Variants Spreading

    Broke On: Wednesday, 19 June 2024 As the summer travel season kicks off, COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the US with a 0.8% increase in test positivity from the previous week. The Western region, particularly along the West Coast, is experiencing significant increases in COVID-19 wastewater levels and test positivity rates. Experts advise senior citizens and those with respiratory diseases to wear masks on airplanes due to the spread of contagious sub-variants. Vaccination rates have declined in some areas, contributing to a summer surge driven by the dominant KP.3 variant, which makes up 25% of cases in the US.
  • Seattle Officer's Callous Remarks About Graduate Student Killed in Overdose Response Spark Outrage

    Seattle Officer's Callous Remarks About Graduate Student Killed in Overdose Response Spark Outrage

    Broke On: Thursday, 25 January 2024 On January 23, 2023, a graduate student from India named Jaahnavi Kandula was killed by another officer's vehicle in Seattle while Officer Kevin Dave was responding to an overdose call and driving at high speed. The incident sparked outrage around the city and nationally. The Office of Police Accountability found that Officer Daniel Auderer violated policing standards when he made insensitive remarks about Kandula's death after hearing audio from his body camera recorded hours later.