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Agreed on the point, but your example brings up a different problem for me. 100,000 dead Russians, is very likely the propaganda number. Maybes it’s right; may
by SV_BubbleTime 4y ago
Agreed on the point, but your example brings up a different problem for me.
100,000 dead Russians, is very likely the propaganda number. Maybes it’s right; maybe it’s not, IDK, but I know that there has been zero negative Ukraine news since the conflict started (ghost of Kiev anyone?), and the media machine definitely only works one way on this topic.
I mean, Russia isn’t the good guy here, but I don’t excuse propaganda just because it tells a story I want to hear.
In this case, I don’t care what the US or Ukraine says the number is. That isn’t news. It’s narrative, true or not.
So, I feel like the score should take into account if how likely an article is to be narrative vs purely an event.
- amoss 4y agoThe estimate is 100 000 casualities (20k dead and 80k wounded), and it seems to be correlated with several different intelligence sources. The number is news because Russia is waging a large-scale invasion of another country using cannon fodder tactics. Reporting on that invasion is not simply propaganda.
- afterburner 4y ago> The estimate is 100 000 casualities (20k dead and 80k wounded) Since December