there is decades of infrastructure and effort to monitor bias at old media. Public editors, watchdogs, ombudsman, transparency..
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Replying to @zeynep
do you think that infrastructure is effective at mitigating bias in old media? serious question; it doesn’t seem that way to me.
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Replying to @talyarkoni
would it be worse without it is the correct question.
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Replying to @zeynep
fair question. my sense is that the formal mechanisms are pretty useless, and the only thing that makes a diff is public outcry.
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Replying to @talyarkoni
these things are so opaque though. public editors, ombudsman, watchdogs etc. can help the public cry out.
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Replying to @zeynep
sure. I’m not against regulation of new media. my point is, I don’t think we got ombudsmen by waiting for Fox to say “we’re biased”.
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Replying to @talyarkoni
I'm not advocating waiting for anything but with Fox, you can at least see the coverage. Now data is proprietary, feeds secret.
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Replying to @zeynep
the coverage is the timeline. the newsroom is the algorithm. you see the former and not the latter in both cases.
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Replying to @talyarkoni @zeynep
I have no idea how a story decision is made at the NYT, and I can’t request a transcript of the editors convos, as far as I know.
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Replying to @talyarkoni
But you can see what's published on the page. And tons of people study/interview/interrogate decision makers. Big difference.
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I criticize media a lot. But this is a new game; you don't even know who sees what, let alone why. No output, no interrogation.
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