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I read your blog post about how open-sourcing helped you find testers, which is a great step for such tools.
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I'm not sure how to parse the following sentence: By newscatcherapi.com (this package is fully self-sufficient, you can just use it. No dependency on external services/API)
I interpret this as Created by but you do not need anything from us or from anyone else to get the software going, it just works out of the box.
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Seems like a terrible idea to me. The two sides are at war, and if the way you sample them is by going 50-50, that encourages them to be more extreme because that will skew the average in their direction. We already see this in the media. You have the host and two people. Lets hear what person A says, lets hear what person B says. Who's right? Impossible to tell, otherwise you must be biased. And no mention that pers…
Educating yourself about every topic out there is absolutely impossible. Thats precisely why news businesses exist in the first place.
The Guardian (yes, ironically a provider of "News"), published an extract from the writings of "The Art of Thinking Clearly" author with some decent enough bullet points on this that are difficult to argue with:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...
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Seems like a terrible idea to me. The two sides are at war, and if the way you sample them is by going 50-50, that encourages them to be more extreme because that will skew the average in their direction. We already see this in the media. You have the host and two people. Lets hear what person A says, lets hear what person B says. Who's right? Impossible to tell, otherwise you must be biased. And no mention that pers…
And the better alternative is...? What you say is correct but also worthless unless you provide a better way to do it.
Actively researching both sources and stories, and not being a passive consumer who expects someone else to spoon-feed you a solution.
For any news junkies heres, I've built https://maagnit.com which gathers both Left and Right leaning sources for any story and displays them altogether on one page. My approach has been, if we can't get neutral/objective coverage, getting comprehensive, 360 desgree coverage is a good alternative. These days, news bias is not only in the way a story is covered, but also which stories are covered. So, maagnit automatic…
For any news junkies heres, I've built https://maagnit.com which gathers both Left and Right leaning sources for any story and displays them altogether on one page. My approach has been, if we can't get neutral/objective coverage, getting comprehensive, 360 desgree coverage is a good alternative. These days, news bias is not only in the way a story is covered, but also which stories are covered. So, maagnit automatic…
I find most media biased towards conflict in that regard. The primary goal is to trigger emotions like rage and fear.
So for my self I find I’m happier not consuming “news” at all.
For any news junkies heres, I've built https://maagnit.com which gathers both Left and Right leaning sources for any story and displays them altogether on one page. My approach has been, if we can't get neutral/objective coverage, getting comprehensive, 360 desgree coverage is a good alternative. These days, news bias is not only in the way a story is covered, but also which stories are covered. So, maagnit automatic…
This seems really cool! How does it work internally? Is it downloading the news from a RSS or is it crawling the content of the website? Or is the content coming from an external service? How are the feeds selected? Can we add more? who is maintaining them (in case the data is crawled)? Thanks!
hey, there is a sqlite DB that stores the RSS endpoints. Then we use feedparser python package to parse it.
For any news junkies heres, I've built https://maagnit.com which gathers both Left and Right leaning sources for any story and displays them altogether on one page. My approach has been, if we can't get neutral/objective coverage, getting comprehensive, 360 desgree coverage is a good alternative. These days, news bias is not only in the way a story is covered, but also which stories are covered. So, maagnit automatic…
Seems like a terrible idea to me. The two sides are at war, and if the way you sample them is by going 50-50, that encourages them to be more extreme because that will skew the average in their direction. We already see this in the media. You have the host and two people. Lets hear what person A says, lets hear what person B says. Who's right? Impossible to tell, otherwise you must be biased. And no mention that pers…
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Educating yourself about every topic out there is absolutely impossible. Thats precisely why news businesses exist in the first place.
News categorically doesn't educate. The Guardian (yes, ironically a provider of "News"), published an extract from the writings of "The Art of Thinking Clearly" author with some decent enough bullet points on this that are difficult to argue with: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...
I think there's a threshold of distance and size where it stops being useful to the average person. Too far away? Can't do anything about it? Better not weigh down your mind by getting stressed about it.
[1] http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_spe...