nemild
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4 years ago Apologies for the delay. Thanks for flagging the broken link, it should be fixed.
My goal is to educate people to the forces that shape the media that is created and distributed. A common mistaken fallacy is that media is a mirror of the world, when in reality it is a mirror of what people want to read/hear. Even many great journalists or social media barons don't understand the effects that shape what media content is created and distributed.
I am not looking to make a checklist. The goal is to provide examples of "bias" so people can draw their own judgments and conclusions. You're right that many resources on this topic exist, and that's ok. My unique bent is that 1) it's directed at engineers, and 2) I try to include primary sources and sometimes original data analysis. As a college journalist and an electrical engineer, I also liken journalism to sampling which is a unique lens that others may not approach it from.
I do appreciate your comments, and if there are tangible ways you would like to contribute, I am always interested to hear.
link to guidelines is broken -- https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer/blob/master/contributing.md
may want to put the important 'rules' into the body of the content itself
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'Key questions to ask with any media:' appears to be a checklist basically
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what is your goal? the type-kind of material/content you are making is already all over the web
i've done many versions of this basic thing you're doing when it comes to the topic of 'information' and 'the quality of info'
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i think if you're making a full checklist
that leads to clear answers
and not vague question that would be incredibly inredbily hard to find the answer to:
(example: "why they writing about this topic and how they and/or their sources personally benefit? Always need to understand personal motivation of writer and their sources")
for example nobody is going to tell you
i am writing this msg to you cos 1) im very familiar with it, 2) i dunno how i benefit tho may be i can???, and 3) my motivate for writing is i dunno cos ppl dont actually always know what makes them do something, and im any well-educated person would already know that
but there is lots of info to learn and know so..... but im guessing it's cos im familiar with this topic
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so i'd imagine w/e you're making here you'd want it to be HELPFUL/USEFUL
currently as it is, i can tell you right now it is not