Fox News vs The Wall Street Journal — Discipline
How rigorously each source backs its factual claims with verifiable evidence.
The Wall Street Journal outscores Fox News on Citation Discipline by 38 points (A · 88 vs D · 50).
Fox News
Hard-news desk runs editorial standards; opinion + commentary pieces often single-sourced; corrections varying.
The Wall Street Journal
Multi-source verification; corrections public; named bylines + editor accountability; fact-check process documented.
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Why these Discipline scores
Hard-news desk runs editorial standards; opinion + commentary pieces often single-sourced; corrections varying.
Multi-source verification; corrections public; named bylines + editor accountability; fact-check process documented.
Signals behind the Discipline score
- Format varianceHard news vs. opinion + cable-pundit content have different sourcing rigor.
- Standards + ethicsPublic WSJ standards + ethics document.
Other dimensions for Fox News vs The Wall Street Journal
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Sources & references
Every score on this page is read from the two publications below and graded against the published rubric. No score is bought, estimated or supplied by the source being scored.
- Source evaluated — Fox News (foxnews.com) · verified · full scoring record
- Source evaluated — The Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) · verified · full scoring record
- Scoring rubric — SourceScore Index, Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, Citation Velocity (methodology v0.1)
- Machine-readable record — /api/compare/fox-news-vs-wsj/discipline.json