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"disproportionate use of passive voice..." seems to be a healthy definition of bias to me. I did not have the time to properly analyse all 33000 articles myself
by amarant 5y ago
"disproportionate use of passive voice..." seems to be a healthy definition of bias to me. I did not have the time to properly analyse all 33000 articles myself, so I'm not in a position to validate the data.
- raxxorrax 5y agoEnglish isn't my native tongue, but I don't really understand the bias conclusion. After trying to look it up I found this article (2003): http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000236.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000236.h... I thought that funny. But I think it remains true, that you cannot infer bias by only observing language.
- dvfjsdhgfv 5y agoSeems quite natural to me. When dealing with sensitive issues, you may want to use less assertive instruments of speech, like "20 people were killed on the Israeli side" rather than "Palestinians killed 20 Israelis." For proper research you'd need to compare at least against other pieces of military conflicts reporting.
- prepend 5y agoIt’s not not biased unless used differently. Are these differences due to other variables than just Israel/Palestine? Also oddly, the paper didn’t include a statistical analysis of whether these differences are even significant.