Every research document behind Whitepaper No. 9, published as written. These are working files — protocols, workstream findings, deviation logs, red-team passes — not summaries. Where a document was later corrected, the original stays.
- Phase 0 Findings — GBMT-9 (Media)Kill condition (1) — the news-desert count — does not fire as a strict stop the way housing's shortage number did: the figure is arithmetically stable…media/docs/phase0-findings.md
- Research Inquiry: Media (GBMT-9)1. Which media problem? At least five travel under "the death of the news," with different mechanisms and different fixes: (a) local news collapse — t…media/docs/research-inquiry.md
- Deviations Log (GBMT-9)Freeze point: media/docs/research-inquiry.md as committed at the start of Phase 0 (2026-08-03). Every deviation from protocol-specified method is logg…media/research/deviations-log.md
- Moving-targets log (GBMT-9)The media filing's Phase 0 and execution passes (2026-08-03) flagged several claims as time-sensitive moving targets. This log records dated re-checks…media/research/moving-targets-log.md
- Steelman log — GBMT-9 (Media), Verification Protocol Phase 2Written before any evidence was gathered, from the hypothesis set (media/docs/research-inquiry.md §2, §3), the scorecard (ws11-scorecard.md), and the …media/research/steelman-log.md
- Verification log — GBMT-9 (Media), Phase 1 fact-checkSection A = published whitepaper (site/media/index.html), 255 claims (A-1 – A-255).media/research/verification-log.md
- §2/§8 findings — Public spending & philanthropy inventory (GBMT-9)This is the resolved version of anchor 13, and the arithmetic is worth stating plainly:media/research/ws02-08-findings.md
- §3 pass 2 + §4 findings — GBMT-9 (Media)Four claimed civic harms were audited against the two-source, different-root independence rule, the same standard applied to Auckland's rent literatur…media/research/ws03-04-findings.md
- §5 findings — Ownership & consolidation (GBMT-9)Two independent, methodologically distinct academic studies converge on the same result: investment ownership cuts newsroom staffing.media/research/ws05-findings.md
- §9 findings — Civil society, political economy, and trust (GBMT-9)Gallup's September 2025 poll (independently corroborated by Reuters Institute's 2026 Digital News Report and Pew): 28% overall trust in mass media, fi…media/research/ws09-findings.md
- §10 findings — Precedents, including the required subsidy steelman (GBMT-9)Newspapers carried 70-95% of mail weight (1794-1832) while generating only 3-15% of postal revenue — a real, century-plus, viewpoint-neutral subsidy v…media/research/ws10-findings.md
- §11 Red-team log (GBMT-9)The core factual findings underlying the scorecard (CPB's dissolution, the bargaining-code incumbent-concentration evidence, the philanthropy-scale mi…media/research/ws11-red-team-log.md
- §11 Independent re-score & reconciliation log (GBMT-9)GBMT-9's first red team renamed axis B to "demonstrated durability against a hostile political majority, not a design label" — and corrected two cells…media/research/ws11-rescore-log.md
- §11 Scorecard — Candidate Architectures (GBMT-9)1=no capacity added, or added only to already-strong outlets · 3=moderate, real add but not desert-targeted · 5=large, demonstrated add specifically i…media/research/ws11-scorecard.md
- §12 Sequencing (GBMT-9)The largest swing in the scorecard is still architecture #4 vs. #4b — restoring public-media funding inside vs. outside the annual appropriations cycl…media/research/ws12-sequencing.md
- §13 U.S. v. Google ad-tech remedies — status and usable inferenceThe published media scorecard describes structural platform remedies as anmedia/research/ws13-google-remedies.md
- §14 Prospective evidence check — demand-side local-news supportcredits). This late pass does not change a scorecard cell; a revised row needsmedia/research/ws14-voucher-evidence.md
- §15 Prospective evidence check — local-news capacity proxya change to the scorecard.media/research/ws15-capacity-proxy.md
- §16 Ghost-paper audit — a current status check is not yet a countThe whitepaper correctly says the ghost-paper bias is only half-sized. Thismedia/research/ws16-ghost-paper-audit.md
- Baseline incompatibility log (GBMT-9)Real errors and format breaks caught while building the baseline pipeline, per the discipline set in housing/baseline/incompatibility-log.md and elder…media/baseline/incompatibility-log.md