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Journalism has failed during this pandemic.

• op03 6y ago
  Social media's Like/Click/View based reward architecture is the main reason. If it doesn't change journalism wont. If we had Stackoverflow points for journos rather than FB or Twitter Like counts the world would be a much different place.
  • smitty1e 6y ago
    Inviting the question: why not a StackOverflow site for journalism? HN seems a step in that direction, but seems a bit too focused on its tech mission for general goings-on.
    • op03 6y ago
      Techmeme Topic leaderboards seem to be heading in a good direction - www.techmeme.com/lb
• onecommentman 6y ago
  But publicly available data in the US has succeeded. You can collect decent data from every State website, stick them in a spreadsheet and draw your own conclusions. Twenty minute exercise every three days. Slice and dice however you want, even at the county level. Track trends. Found most useful when State officials were shy about reporting per capita trends by county because of political concerns... There are even websites that do a decent job of collecting the public US data, report it and charting it up for the US. (This was bought out by The Atlantic, but is still good.) https://covidtracking.com/data https://covidtracking.com/data And the CDC isn’t too shabby either. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_5.html https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_5.html As well as https://data.cms.gov/stories/s/COVID-19-Nursing-Home-Data/bkwz-xpvg/ https://data.cms.gov/stories/s/COVID-19-Nursing-Home-Data/bk... https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states