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Europe according to the western media.
The page Vanishing Point:
“…consists of a map of the world connected to a database fed by news coming from several international newspapers. The visibility of each country on the map results from the quantity of media coverage the country receives, so those countries that do not make the news disappear progressively.”
As you can see, Slovenia — together with Eastern Europe, Africa, South America and parts of Central Asia — pretty much don’t exist. That’s not much of a surprise. I’ve always been disappointed by the fact that “European news” has become synonymous with news about the big three. On the other hand, it’s encouraging that Slovenia isn’t the only country being ignored. It’s pretty much the whole world.
(Thanks Roman!)
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Thisis ust another attempt to fake the greatness of amerika and shit on the rest of the world…ja?
its nothing new! its been going on since world war 1!!!
“Content for the news search was provided by the RSS feeds of the selected newspapers:
-CANADA: -Globe and Mail
-FRANCE: -Le Figrao -Le Monde
-GERMANY: -Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
-ITALY: -La Republica
-JAPAN: -The Japan Times -Yomiuri
-UNITED KINGDOM: -The Times -Guardian Unlimited
-UNITED STATES: -Wall Street Journal -New York Times
For each country, a set of country-specific keywords was created….” bla, bla…
I don’t trust this analysis to much. E.g.: Oman is far overrated, Israel is underrated (Int. media dont talk about anything else in my reception). The algorithm seems to be a little bit poor; I would be curious what news.google.com could say about this matter…
And, if you would like to know what German newspapers are writing about Slovenia: try this!It’s quite a lot.
No news is good news!
Odisej:
It’s also: Good news is no news!
Robert is absolutely right, though i wouldn’t say that algorithm itself is “poor”. What is really poor is their selection of “several international newspapers”. Hahaha. Only one - a conservative one - is from from Germany and two are from the UK (of which one seems to be a newspaper’s website)? One English-speaking and one Japanese from Japan? Two conservative dailies from France? Two from New York and nothing from the rest of the USA? They are, I think, taking a piss. Unless, of course, they are only trying to show how out of touch “international newspapers” really are.
“I don’t trust this analysis to much. E.g.: Oman is far overrated, Israel is underrated” - if you look through the articles on Oman, you will see that 99% (possibly 100%) are from the two french papers listed - something used as a ‘country specific word’ for Oman is most likely something commonly used in French - thereby skewing the results. I am curious as to which other countries would have them skewed like that.
But I also do agree that it isn’t a very good representation of ‘world’ news at all.
I was surprised that Slovenia’s adoption of the euro recieved absolutely zero coverage in north america. I think that news concerning one of the worlds forefront currencies deserved some attention.
Just goes to show you that you shouldnt trust the media, they tell you what they want you to, nothing else.
Yeah the adoption of the Euro was totally not covered, not even by NPR. But changing currency isn’t usually violent. I don’t remember coverage of the transition from Punt to Euro with Ireland either.
I am surprised that Kosovo as the most troublesome region in this part of the world receives no coverage at all.