News Cracking 1 : Meet the Editors
Matthew Hurst writes:
I posted recently about visualizing the relationships between editors and the countries appearing in articles they edit for news articles published by Reuters. I’ve since updated my experimental news aggregation site (now it is intended to eventually be more of a meta-news analysis site) to display only Reuters articles and to extract the names of contributors, including the editors. The overall list of editors is maintained (in the right column) and each editor is displayed with the number of articles observed for which they have attribution. Currently Cynthia Johnston and Tim Dobbyn are at the top of the list.
What do you think about Matthew’s plans for future tracking? Thoughts on how subject identities might/might not be helpful? Comment at Matthew’s blog.
I don’t know if CNN is still this way because it has been a long time since I have seen it but it used to repeat the same news over and over again every 24 hour cycle. It might be amusing to see how short a summary could be created for some declared 24 hour news cycle. I suppose the only problem would be that if CNN “knew” it was being watched, they would introduce artificial diversity into the newscast.
Still, I suppose one could capture the audio track and using voice recognition software collapse all the repetitive statements, excluding the commercials (or including commercials as well). Maybe I do need a cable TV connection in my home office. 😉