[OC] Hedging and Passive Voice Trends across 8 News Outlets, 2016–2026

After my previous post on passive voice and hedging by news topic, I looked at the same idea at the outlet level. So I ran the same style of metadata-only linguistic analysis across 8 news outlets from 2016–2026. The two metrics shown are: Hedging Rate: Share of sentences containing uncertainty/speculative language, such as “may,” “might,” [...]