They’re watching your edits (Part II)
A fellow named Chris Riley has built a web site that tracks the BBC news site’s judgment. Essentially, it follows what people are reading in a manner similar to a tag cloud and then compares it to the order in which BBC producers have placed the stories on the site. When I checked, the BBC site was “37% in touch with what we’re reading.”
Add to that, the NewsSniffer site, which tracks all of the changes made to BBC articles, such as corrections, style changes, added paragraphs and anything else (SEE: ‘They’re watching your edits’).
Hey, maybe the next innovation is a machine that sticks anal probes inside all the BBC producers to check for bias at the genetic level.
[via Online Journalism Blog]
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maybe the next innovation is a machine that sticks anal probes inside all the BBC producers
Wasn’t that an episode of south park? Yeah …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartman_Gets_an_Anal_Probe
I kid you not, I was THIS close to putting a little picture of Cartman and his anal probe. In the end I deemed it to gross for this distinguished forum.
However, IF you wanted to see footage of said incident, you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zh4FYQ1nXo. You’ve been warned!