✕ Headline / Body Mismatch [9/10]: Headline directly states the legal outcome and role of the individual, avoiding exaggeration. Uses neutral terms like 'jailed for role' rather than emotionally charged language.

"Matthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant jailed for role in Friends star’s ketamine death"

✕ Loaded Language [10/10]: Use of emotionally charged language by quoted sources (e.g., 'monster', 'rot in prison') is clearly attributed, not editorialised by the reporter.

"What you are is the monster that killed him,” she said."

✕ Loaded Verbs [10/10]: Reporter uses neutral verbs like 'said', 'told', 'handed down', avoiding loaded reporting verbs like 'claimed' or 'admitted'.

"Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence"

✕ Loaded Labels [8/10]: Describes Iwamasa as 'enabler, drug messenger and de facto doctor' — a factual summary of his role, not editorial judgment.

"acting as the actor’s enabler, drug messenger and de facto doctor."

✕ Passive-Voice Agency Obfuscation [10/10]: Passive voice used appropriately ('was sentenced'), not to obscure agency. Active voice used when agency is clear ('he gave', 'he lied').

"On 23 October 2023, he gave the 54-year-old actor a large dose and left to run errands."

✓ Comprehensive Sourcing [10/10]: Multiple named sources with direct stakes: judge, defendant, defence attorney, family members (mother, stepfather), business manager, and prosecutors via plea agreement. Shows diverse, high-stakes perspectives.

"Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence to 60-year-old Kenneth Iwamasa in federal court in Los Angeles."

✓ Viewpoint Diversity [9/10]: Includes defence perspective through attorney Alan Eisner, who argues Iwamasa was loyal and acting under pressure from a powerful employer.

"His loyalty to Mr Perry was paramount,” Eisner told the judge. “He worshipped Mr Perry, he looked up to Mr Perry. All he did was please and accommodate Mr Perry."

✓ Viewpoint Diversity [9/10]: Family and estate executor express strong condemnation, providing emotional and moral counterweight. Their quotes are attributed clearly and directly.

"What you are is the monster that killed him,” she said."

✓ Proper Attribution [10/10]: Judge’s own words are quoted to show legal reasoning, including rejection of abuse-of-trust enhancement and lack of malicious intent finding.

"there is no hard evidence that you acted with malicious intent, though some would disagree"

✕ Moral Framing [8/10]: The story is framed around accountability and moral responsibility, particularly through family statements calling Iwamasa a 'monster'. This introduces a strong moral framing.

"What you are is the monster that killed him,” she said."

✕ Episodic Framing [7/10]: Focuses on Iwamasa’s actions as enabler and drug messenger, shaping the narrative around personal failure and betrayal rather than systemic issues in celebrity care or addiction treatment.

"He was the last person to see Perry alive and he was the one who found him dead in his hot tub."

✕ Narrative Framing [9/10]: Judge’s rejection of abuse-of-trust enhancement and lack of malicious intent introduces nuance, preventing full descent into moral condemnation.

"there is no hard evidence that you acted with malicious intent, though some would disagree"