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 LABELING THE MEDIA WITH DATA
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To answer these questions, we need to get better data, Ethan argued. Otherwise, we'll spend all our time debating a metaphor. Ethan thinks the nutritional metaphor is a good one, made popular by Alisa Miller in her TED Talk on how the news shapes the way we see the world. Alisa's talk shows a skewed map to illustrate how TV coverage can shape the public's awareness of the world. At the Center for Civic Media, we're developing tools to make it easier for individuals and media companies to track these things in real time.
This is important because not everyone cares about the same things. Clay really cares about in-depth political journalism and escaping confirmation bias. Ethan really wants to know world news, and to be confident he's not missing anything. Other people want to surround themselves with news from their home country, or get away from their computer by listening to the radio.
Even if we accept Clay's media priorities, Ethan thinks infoveganism is where Clay's metaphor breaks down. Is the continuum from Congress to Fox news really the information pyramid? If Clay left the Sunlight Foundation because data wasn't persuading the public, can we really try to create a movement around reading the data? Ethan argued that journalism helps us by going through that raw data and adding context to it. Instead of stripping away value, don't media organizations add value by checking facts and adding context?
Clay disagreed. He said he has never seen a single article which links to a data source. When Ethan asked if he was being dismissive of journalism, Clay said that he found it more dismissive when journalists didn't link to their sources. Ethan said it was probably unrealistic to ask people to go to the raw data. Clay thinks we should be skeptical of journalists because they don't give us the whole story.
Ethan then asked Sean, "Why are we fat?" Should we blame ourselves or the system sprzatanie Warszawa? Sean thinks we should blame technology, which has made consumption and production cheaper, while packaging it in a more concentrated fashion. It's far easier to buy prepackaged food than make it ourselves.
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