Comparing News Site Reading Levels: USA Today vs NYT vs Cartoon Network

I’ve been playing a little with the new Google search setting where you can use a site’s “reading level” — a measure of its textual complexity — as a filter. Here are various websites, news-related with one exception, and what Google thinks their reading levels are: [-]

Site Level
NY Times Intermediate
WSJ Intermediate
FT Intermediate
NY Post Intermediate
Economist Intermediate
Bloomberg Intermediate
USA Today Basic
Drudge Report Basic
Fox News Basic
Cartoon Network Basic

 

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