Framing labels
Every article the system ingests gets tagged with one of six framing labels. The tag describes how the outlet presented the story, not what the story is.
| Tag | What it means |
|---|---|
neutral | Factual, attribution-heavy. Minimal interpretive language. |
pro-action | Frames the subject favorably, or supports the decision at issue. |
critical | Frames the subject unfavorably, or opposes the decision at issue. |
alarmist | Emphasizes urgency, threat, or worst-case stakes. |
dismissive | Emphasizes overreaction, false alarm, or downplayed stakes. |
international | Framed through a non-US-domestic lens (reserved for international wires) |
How tags are assigned
Each article goes through a classification pass that reads the headline, lede, and body and returns the single best-fitting tag plus a short framing_summary explaining the choice. The summary is what appears in the "framing" column on the event detail page and in the framing_summary field of a source object.
Caveats
- An outlet can have different tags on different stories.
neutralon one,criticalon the next. The tag describes the article, not the outlet. - Tags are not mutually reinforcing with bias position. A right-leaning outlet can file a
neutralstory; a left-leaning outlet can file acriticalone. internationalis used sparingly. Most international outlets still get a substantive framing tag when their angle warrants it.