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Yep. I feel like it's time to manually make a list of egregious submarine launchers, though it seems that it's journalists who's coverage is over a limited set
by drenvuk 9y ago
Yep. I feel like it's time to manually make a list of egregious submarine launchers, though it seems that it's journalists who's coverage is over a limited set of companies such as social media that are prone to doing things like this.
It feels like there should be a filter that considers who owns a paper, who the journalist has previously covered in depth, and what kinds of stories they're printing. Maybe something like a shill or hater score?
I'm not sure how easy this would be. Does anyone know if something like this exists?
- danso 9y agoPick a reporter from any outlet and manually perform the analysis that you've suggested and I think you'll see that it is not easily computational. Even basic taxonomy of "kinds of stories" is not well implemented on a service such as Google News.
- avn2109 9y agoYou'll also find that almost all reporters do the things you don't like. It's a mostly-inevitable consequence of the system of incentives and constraints that apply to almost all reporters.
- awkwarddaturtle 9y agoIt's all journalists. It's all media. Some are for sure outright corrupt but it's just part of the job. > I'm not sure how easy this would be. Does anyone know if something like this exists? Don't know of any such thing that exists today. But it shouldn't be that difficult. A simple database linking journalists, news organizations, to topics/companies/keywords/etc. The data set shouldn't even be that large.
- hu67 9y agoAll orgs with a PR dept have a list and a rate card. It's not like this info doesn't exist. It's just that the general public can't do jack about it. It's like knowing the salaries of baseball players and what team they are on. General public has zero influence on that. The only people who have influence on these things is people who can buy the whole team and set an agenda.
- sitkack 9y agoThe only correct thing to do is make it a public dataset on GCS and analyze it with BigQuery.
- hu67 9y agoWhy will that make a difference? By knowing what a baseball players salary is and who he plays for today do you magically influence what his salary is and who he plays for tomorrow? These things are way abv the paygrades of anyone sitting around here.
- sitkack 9y agoIf you are going to detect Google fraud, you should use Google tools to do it!