How we read sources.

Outlets whose job is to put facts on the public record — wire services, papers of record, beat reporters with sourcing inside the institutions they cover.

When PIE writes 'Treasury raised the rate to 100% on Tuesday,' that sentence is doing what it can do because a wire service or a paper of record reported it first, with named officials. We start here. Most stories load almost all their weight on this layer — the next two layers explain what the fact means, not whether it happened.

Outlets that declare a politics and write from inside it. They argue, prosecute, and persuade — well, when they're good. We surface them so framings don't come out of nowhere.

Reading Jacobin on tariffs is reading a socialist case for industrial policy. Reading Commentary on Iran is reading the neoconservative case. Both are useful precisely because they're declared. We mark them with a small chip the same color as our framing chips — same vocabulary you've already learned in the story view.

State-controlled outlets covering stories where their government is a party. They are not independent reporting. They are useful exactly because they speak for the state.

If the story is the Iran nuclear talks, you should know what Tehran is saying for the record. Tehran Times is the official line; we surface it so you don't have to imagine it. We rewrite their attribution — "Iran's official framing, via Tehran Times" — because the sentence is the truth, and a small badge isn't.