I kinda like the Daily Mail lol
@cjd you could track the descent into journalistic degeneracy by the proportion of actually interesting world events were only reported in the mail or the ny post
@skells
Wonder if anyone's run a textual analysis on newspapers based on common words or phrases and time in order to link together the ones which are singing the same song...
@cjd yeah I had a quick rummage, looks like one would need to bodge up a crawler and a scraper for the paper/headline/text/date, then it's just some reasonably simple (famous last words) ML.
I'll add it to the painfully long list of interesting projects to dream about while shitposting
@skells
Well time is a necessary component. If you're not adding the dimension of time then you won't get anything.
But if you have multiple newspapers writing "articles" that are based on the same bullet-points, then textual analysis should be able to reverse engineer the bullet-points from the articles...