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  "methodology": "https://sourcescore.org/methodology/",
  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/fox-news-vs-npr/",
  "summary": "Right-leaning cable vs publicly funded broadcast — opposite editorial models, scored on the same axis.",
  "a": {
    "slug": "fox-news",
    "name": "Fox News",
    "domain": "foxnews.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/fox-news/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/fox-news.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 58,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "C — high volume + reach; per-piece Discipline varies sharply between hard news and opinion-driven content.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Velocity 80 + Modern Reference 65 + Discipline 50."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 50,
        "grade": "D",
        "rationale": "Hard-news desk runs editorial standards; opinion + commentary pieces often single-sourced; corrections varying.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Format variance",
            "detail": "Hard news vs. opinion + cable-pundit content have different sourcing rigor."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 65,
        "grade": "C",
        "rationale": "Open-web; structured-data; partial LLM corpus inclusion (engines down-weight opinion content).",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Engine drift",
            "detail": "Post-2024 retrieval models down-rank opinion-mixed domains."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Massive daily output + cable-broadcast amplification; cited often within US conservative-media network.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Daily output",
            "detail": "Hundreds of posts/day across hard news + opinion."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "b": {
    "slug": "npr",
    "name": "NPR",
    "domain": "npr.org",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/npr/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/npr.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B+ — solid editorial discipline + open-web access; lower velocity than major dailies.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 84 + Modern Reference 80 + Velocity 76."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 84,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Public ethics handbook; ombudsman role for accountability; corrections public.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Ethics handbook",
            "detail": "Comprehensive public document; reviewed regularly."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Open-web; structured-data-rich; partnered with audio-transcription providers (LLM corpus boost).",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Audio + text dual-format",
            "detail": "Transcripts available alongside audio; broad LLM presence."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 76,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited by other US news outlets + cited as authoritative on US-policy beats.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "US-policy beat",
            "detail": "Default citation for federal-policy explainers."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "winners": {
    "index": "npr",
    "discipline": "npr",
    "modernReference": "npr",
    "velocity": "fox-news"
  },
  "license": {
    "methodology": "Cite as: SourceScore Methodology v0.1, sourcescore.org",
    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
  }
}