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Interesting thought experiment: what if every journalist had a disclosed political affiliation by their name, like politicians do? John Smith, D-NYT Jane Doe, R-WSJ The AP style guide once considered this “essential” information. https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2014/ap-distributes-style-guide-for-u.s.-midterm-elections … https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1272590400113475589 …pic.twitter.com/2tX5XKi5Ua
Anyone could make this happen now, by writing a browser plugin that appended a liberal/conservative percentile rank after authors' names. I don't like the idea though, because it would encourage readers to read only writers they expected to agree with.
Yeah the exact problem with cnn and fox content/audience reinforcement loop
Maybe only display the percentage at the end of the article or after the estimated read time.
Yes, but making partisan affiliation explicit rather than implicit could lead to interesting things. For example, if you wanted to “prove” impartiality rather than simply claim it, an interesting thought experiment would be an outlet with (say) 50% Democrats and 50% Republicans.
This is how the press works in the UK I though? Papers that are explicitly for one party or another
If such a thing is made, perhaps more useful way to rank writers would be by predictions that came true. Like if someone said ‘Covid will be over by May’ that would be a negative. A lot of claims are kinda fuzzy though so it would be tricky to adjudicate.
"appended a liberal/conservative percentile rank after authors' names" How would that be determined? Can an AI create a political compass for each reporter, or better, a way to explore a reporter's history across their career for many given topics?
Designating political ratings algorithmically at the author level is difficult (writing about conservative topics doesn't make one conservative). A simpler solution is The Factual's daily newsletter - curates the most credible stories from the left and right on trending topics.
agreed. on the topic of reading opinions from all sides, one way which I think helps in evaluating an opinion(article/tweet) is to just see the arguments, counter-args. now if someone is reading an op-ed on NYT, how does one get access to those debates? for some situations..
like this "Daily Beast" article, you tweeted and it got good engagement and I came across it. To get access to more of these discussions, I made a simple bookmarklet: https://pastebin.com/74G55kCi just drag this to bookmarks bar, whenever reading an article, click on it, and it'll..
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