Does the news reflect what we die from?

Re:Does the news reflect what we die from? by theobon on Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:30PM (#20056594)

The most interesting tidbit for me was how similar the news breakdown was between the two sources: New York Times and The Guardian. The largest deviation was 3.4% for suicide coverage but almost everything was within 1%.

Perhaps these examples are too similar to get a good distribution but if news organizations are all covering basically the same items perhaps there is an opportunity for differentiation. The google search trends shows that what people are interested in knowing doesn't match what media is interested in telling.

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Re:Does the news reflect what we die from? by ineedasername on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:26PM (#20056970)

I wish they had chosen a different, or a third source though. I rate NYT & The Guardian (though both of decent quality) as fairly similar in editorial outlook.

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Re:Does the news reflect what we die from? by owenshen24 on Friday May 31, 2019 @01:43PM (#20063190)

Even as the person who wrote the scraping code for the original project, I'm a little suspect myself of the news data because of how similar the two distributions turn out to be.

I think the strong similarity is an artifact of our data collection process, rather than reflecting some very deep truth about the similarity of the two sources. Or of sources in general. My priors are that the distribution should have looked more different, but I just didn't do extra verification at the time.

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Re:Does the news reflect what we die from? by koyote on Friday May 31, 2019 @06:18AM (#20059615)

I also found this very interesting.

I'd like to see a similar graph with different media outlets from around the world.

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