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TAThatBoomerang ago

This is actually very powerful. It would be perfect if each headline showed which newspaper it was from so it was verifiable.

XPS ago

Would be interesting to run a world cloud across media sites for each story. Working backwords to see what criteria they were told to parrot in some automated way and then have that as an output.

whisky_cat ago

I could program this, but it'd require a good deal of time and compensation to do it correctly. I believe it would be a powerful tool when auditing MSM news for journalistic integrity (let's be real, there won't be any integrity).

XPS ago

Part I can't think how to do is mapping the story or content items to each other across sites. Unless you just do it a the site level as a whole but then it would only work for the main huge news events. Or using some algorithm to score the headlines and group those which match over a certain percentage.

whisky_cat ago

I think it'd have to track "similar" themed articles for the duration of a week, as they will be edited and manipulated from the day they are published. After a week or so, each page analysis would be archived categorically with its "sibling" articles and evaluated for duplicated verbiage.

Ultimately, if a story is on half a dozen or more MSM outlets with strong consistency, you could correlate that it's probably a narrated news event, whether it be Government or Corporate sponsored (though there's not really a difference, I suspect CIA-sponsored articles wouldn't be much trouble to augment at least, likewise big pharma and Monsanto).

YodaDankfish ago

I'll compensate you with funny youtube videos and upvoats if that works for you.