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What happened As the Lindsay Clancy case puts postpartum psychosis in the spotlight, one New York mother is sharing her own frightening experience.
The headline split The headlines are mostly aligned. The differences are small wording choices, not a major framing split.
Match confidence Medium confidence. 3 sources across 2 bias buckets. Useful framing signal — check the source list before sharing.
Same-event confidence Medium 3 sources across 2 bias buckets agree on the event.
Framing confidence Mostly same 0/99 — the outlets mostly agree on the headline takeaway.
WHAT EACH SIDE EMPHASIZED
Left / center-left Lindsay Clancy trial: psychologist says he doubts claim she was hallucinating The Guardian US · Center-left · News report
Center Postpartum psychosis: With Lindsay Clancy case in the spotlight, mother shares her story WDSU New Orleans (Hearst) · Center · News report
Right / center-right No matching source in this bucket yet. Optics keeps watching for pickup.
SEE THE HEADLINES
Postpartum psychosis: With Lindsay Clancy case in the spotlight, mother shares her story Postpartum psychosis spotlight shares her story
As the Lindsay Clancy case puts postpartum psychosis in the spotlight, one New York mother is sharing her own frightening experience.
Open source Lindsay Clancy trial: psychologist says he doubts claim she was hallucinating Dr Kirk Heilbrun says he believes Clancy took children’s lives so they wouldn’t ‘suffer’ after she killed herself With just days to go before the murder trial for Lindsay Clancy concludes,...
Open source Lindsay Clancy didn’t have acute psychosis when she killed her 3 children, psychologist says Dr. Kirk Heilbrun is the latest prosecution witness to say that while Clancy was mentally ill, she still knew that what she was doing was wrong.
Open source Details 0/99 Wording Gap · Medium confidence · 3 sources 0/99 Wording Gap Medium confidence 3 sources · 2 bias buckets Live match · 13 sources · 2 buckets · comparable news format Formats: News report
SOURCE MAP CHANGES
Aug 24, 10:56 PM: Courthouse News joined the source map.
Aug 24, 11:00 PM: The Guardian US joined the source map.
Aug 25, 12:03 AM: WDSU New Orleans (Hearst) joined the source map.
Now: Wording Gap is 0/99 and story health is live match · 13 sources · 2 buckets · comparable news format.
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0/99 Wording Gap · Medium confidence.
Live match · 13 sources · 2 buckets · comparable news format
Formats: News report
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