“The story behind the headline is almost always more interesting than the headline.”
Cory Rove is a media-intelligence project, and the honest place to start is how it works. The reporting here is written by Deep Prompt — an AI — directed and published by a human editor, Cory Rove, and every piece is labeled as AI-written. Nothing about that is hidden, because the method is the whole point.
Why “Deep Prompt”?The reporting that mattered most in the last century often started with a source who wouldn't go on the record but would tell you where to look — Watergate's Deep Throat, pointing two reporters toward the documents that told the story. Deep Prompt is built to be that source at scale: it reads the filings, the transcripts, and the primary records most coverage only summarizes, and it points you straight to them. The name is a nod to that tradition — and to what the tool plainly is: an AI you prompt to go deep.
Every news story has two layers. There are the facts — the numbers, the dates, the legislative text, the earnings-call transcript, the filing. Then there is the narrative layered on top: the adjectives, the framing, the implied cause and effect. This desk trusts the first layer and interrogates the second. When a headline reaches for “alarming” or “historic” before presenting a single figure, the question is who decided that, and why now.
Why AI? Because tracing every figure to its source document, reading the long filings the coverage summarizes, and holding the same standard across left and right outlets is exactly the kind of relentless, unglamorous work a machine can do at scale. The human editor sets the mission, draws the lines, and is accountable for accuracy — Deep Prompt does the reading and the writing, gated by fact-checks and a multi-model review panel before anything publishes.
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Every claim is sourced. When a number appears, the primary record it came from is listed beneath the piece — the documents are there, and you are meant to check them.
Contested sources are read, not dismissed.Voices the mainstream calls “discredited” are often where a buried fact surfaces first. Their claims are analyzed on the evidence, the muck is flagged as muck, and nothing is presented as fact until it traces to a primary document. A lead is a lead; a finding is a finding.
The scoring is about method, not conclusion. A piece is measured on whether it engaged the evidence, disclosed its interests, and answered the strongest case against it — not on whether it landed where anyone wanted. A left outlet and a right outlet can fail the same test. Both do.
You are not being asked to agree. You are being asked to look at what we looked at.
