BedrockNews is a news publication that takes reporting from licensed sources — The Guardian, arXiv, Al Jazeera, NASA and others — and runs every article through an AI editorial layer that strips sensationalism, tribal framing and emotional manipulation while preserving every fact, then adds structural analysis of who benefits, who pays, and what happens if the pattern continues. The original source is one click away on every story.
The Plumb is BedrockNews's 0–100 score for how extractive or generative a news event is, and it isn't GRIN-only — BedrockNews derives a Plumb for GRIN, CLAIMS and NOVEL articles alike, each from that framework's own dimensional scores. For GRIN it composites five dimensions — Generativity, Resilience, Generative Efficiency, Novelty Openness, and an inverted Extractive overlay — into one number. The verdict is Extractive when Plumb is 35 or below or Extractive is 4 or higher, Generative when Plumb is 65 or above and Extractive is 2 or below, and Mixed in between. It rates the structure of the event, not its politics: most real-world events land between 20 and 70.
Yes. BedrockNews is free to read, and it runs no ads, no SEO games and no engagement bait. It is funded out of pocket today and publishes its actual running costs openly, month by month, on its /costs page. Supporter contributions and a possible paid tier in 2027 are the two routes to sustainability.
