The Harborline Column
A widely shared piece about a proposed harbor development is presented as reporting. The exercise is to find out how much of it is.
Pick a tag, then a sentence.
Verifiable statement with a source or record behind it.
Harborline Voice
The piece as published
City filings
The underlying record
Questions
Twelve sentences of the column, and four carry checkable facts. What is the finding?
The column says residents are furious. The filings record 29 opposed of 41 submissions. What changed?
The column writes that it is hard to escape the conclusion that someone has been promised something. How should that be handled?
The column omits that the request is for 96 feet against 55-foot zoning. Whose case does that omission hurt?
What is the correct output of this analysis?