Fox News vs NPR
Right-leaning cable vs publicly funded broadcast — opposite editorial models, scored on the same axis.
Fox News
U.S. cable news brand with mass online reach; opinion-news mix; per-piece quality varies between hard news and commentary.
NPR
U.S. nonprofit public-radio newsroom; broad daily news coverage with editorial guidelines + ombudsman model.
Head-to-head — all four dimensions
| Dimension | Fox News | NPR | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
SourceScore Index Composite | C·58 | B·80 | NPR+22 |
Citation Discipline How rigorously cited | D·50 | B·84 | NPR+34 |
Modern Reference AI-era fitness | C·65 | B·80 | NPR+15 |
Citation Velocity Cited per week | B·80 | B·76 | Fox+4 |
Why these scores
Citation Discipline
Hard-news desk runs editorial standards; opinion + commentary pieces often single-sourced; corrections varying.
Public ethics handbook; ombudsman role for accountability; corrections public.
Modern Reference
Open-web; structured-data; partial LLM corpus inclusion (engines down-weight opinion content).
Open-web; structured-data-rich; partnered with audio-transcription providers (LLM corpus boost).
Citation Velocity
Massive daily output + cable-broadcast amplification; cited often within US conservative-media network.
Cited by other US news outlets + cited as authoritative on US-policy beats.