News media
⚖️ This is what the News Scale says about the (im)balance in news media
8,500 headlines and leads from 24 news outlets in 15 countries have been assessed on how positive, negative or neutral they are.
⚖️ The News Scale (which measures how balanced the news media are)
That the news media are one long doomscroll makes us all a little dumb. But how unbalanced are they? I have built a news scale.
📰 Trust in journalists has nearly doubled in 20 years
44 percent of Swedes have high or fairly high trust in journalists, according to the latest survey from the SOM Institute. The share has risen from 24 percent in 2004, nearly doubling over two decades. At the same time, the share who think journalists do their job poorly has been cut in half.
💀 What the media says we die from – and what we actually die from (terrorism overreported 18,000 times)
What we die from are heart disease and cancer. Which causes of death do you think top the news headlines?
🗞️ They led the digital transition, now they ban AI...
AI can filter, refine, and enhance, but this newspaper prefers outdated forms.
📰 This is what the news could look like
The big news was not how many died in the earthquake in Taiwan, but how many did NOT die
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Is a revolution underway?
Usually, when writing an opinion piece, it carries a thesis or a message. Not this one. It ends with an open question. That question is based on the notion that something big is underway. Something revolutionary.
🤖 No, an AI drone has not refused to obey orders and killed a human
It was just a thought experiment on what could happen. It hasn't even happened in a simulation.
🤔 "Hm, here is positive news... we must turn that negative!"
The art of taking positive news and turning it into negative news.