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Ryan Heuser
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Florida man abroad. Lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist, phd'd @StanfordEnglish, now Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities @Cambridge. I make data about culture and am writing about forms of abstraction in literary history.
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Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza, who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: newyorkwarcrimes.com

Since Oct 7th, NYT reported on antisemitism 5 times more often than on Islamophobia
The Times mentioned Israel and Israelis more often than others in their coverage each week since October 7th
 ... while the death toll in Gaza surpassed 25 times the Israeli death toll as of March
Times coverage of the war on Gaza quoted both Israeli and American sources more often than Palestinian ones
The Times used passive voice to describe Palestinians 1.7 times more often than when describing Israelis
...and used active voice with different vocabulary
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SNilovepets420.bsky.social

Has the Israeli death toll really been that flat? I know it's completely lopsided but had assumed there was some back and forth.

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OCrainfrog.bsky.social

Thanks for your important work!

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Hhannah.the-void.social

Thank you for this. I think one of the most important tasks in front of the left is tearing down the NYT being the national "Paper of Record", but nothing is there to fill the gap except more orgs controlled by capital.

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RDreddog2.bsky.social

Hopefully, nyt will evaluate and change. I believe we need legacy news sources.

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BBediter.bsky.social

Nice work. It reminds me of a Spy Magazine story in the late '80s that purported to have found the NYT's formula for how much space a given story would get, using a list of variables (one was left vague so they could make the math work). One variable was "proximity to NYT offices or Tel Aviv."

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TDtdawry.bsky.social

Is the data or code for this available anywhere?

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PFpeterfeld.bsky.social

Here's a new one for the books

At least 20 were killed waiting for food aid in Gaza City, the Gazan authorities said. The cause was not immediately clear.
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TStonysomo.bsky.social

Impressive work. (As an aside you wish a similar analysis was done by others of NYT coverage of Trump and Biden, etc).

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Ryan Heuser
@heuser.bsky.social
Florida man abroad. Lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist, phd'd @StanfordEnglish, now Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities @Cambridge. I make data about culture and am writing about forms of abstraction in literary history.
476 followers381 following68 posts