Forbes, News Coverage, and Google Love
June 24, 2016
Short honk: US news coverage has “faves.” I assume that the capitalist tool avoids bias in its admirable reporting about business.
Navigate to “Television As Data: Mapping 6 Years of American Television News.” The write up uses Big Data from television news to reveal what gets air time. When I read the article, I must admit I thought about the phrase “If it bleeds, it leads.”
The bottom line is not that countries and cities are used to characterize an event. For me the most interesting comment was the thanks bestowed on Google for assisting with the analysis.
I circled twice in honest blue this statement:
In the end, these maps suggest that the bigger story that is being missed in all the conversation about media fragmentation and bias is that media has always been biased geographically, culturally and linguistically.
Note the “all” and the “always.” Nifty generalizations from an analysis of six years of data.
Biased coverage? I cannot conceive of biased coverage. Film at 11.
Stephen E Arnold, June 24, 2016
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