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Comment by atentaten | Hacker News Reader

It would be great if the audio could be transcribed and the text ran through some ML models that could analyze attributes over time, like:

sentiment, new use of words (ideas & technologies), the varying viewpoints for the same story, correlations between when something was first announced to later outcomes, etc.

From this it would be possible to show in a compelling way how the hearts and minds of the masses are shaped by the media they consume.

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> From this it would be possible to show in a compelling way how the hearts and minds of the masses are shaped by the media they consume.

This is already well understood, and has been a conscious science since at least the turn of the century. See Edward Bernays, and Manufacturing Consent

Well understood?

I wonder what the outcome would be of such analysis, I bet it would be interesting!

It’s been validated countless times, basically the media, being large corporations themselves, favour power and are against certain ideas, which are never mentioned. It’s evident all over. For example if you read FAIR you will see many examples of this.

Oh, I very much agree with you, but my point is, how do you measure such things? It's not like you can just get out a ruler.

An archive like this could offer incredible insight into the development of modern culture.

Chomsky actually did measure things by looking at how many times certain stories were reported across all major news agencies. But yes you can’t “measure” it.

It would be a very valuable trove, I look forward to seeing the documentary about it.

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