Where does slant collide?

In poetics, slant rhyme (also called near, half, or oblique rhyme) pairs words whose sounds correspond only approximately, sharing, say, consonants but not vowels, so the echo is muted or dissonant rather than full. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics catalogs it among the types of imperfect rhyme. The referent is a category of sound correspondence in verse, identified by its partial phonetic match, sharing nothing with a newspaper's bias or a receiver's route but the word "slant."[1]

Unit

The degree and kind of partial sound correspondence between rhymed words

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Identified by phonetic analysis of consonant and vowel correspondence in the rhyming pair

In media economics, slant is the measurable ideological tilt of news coverage (how far an outlet's language leans toward one political side), treated as a quantity that can be estimated and explained. Gentzkow and Shapiro's 2010 study builds a language-based index of newspaper slant and finds it driven largely by reader demand rather than owner ideology. The referent is a quantified bias in editorial content, measured by the partisanship of an outlet's language, unrelated to an imperfect rhyme or a football route.[2]

Unit

The estimated ideological tilt of an outlet's language, on a left–right scale

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Measured by a text-based index of partisan phrase use, benchmarked against political speech