Who is Making the News?

Posted by Aggravating-Tank-172

8 comments
  1. I like the visuals!

    It may be worth saving the smallest groups for “other”, or at least removing the big 3 in there.

    It may also be worth noting that news is probably going to report on the sensational careers before the mundane ones. So teachers or religious figures are probably going to have their professions noted more often than electricians and warehouse workers.

  2. Republicans would be very upset by this if they could read.

  3. Is this who is making the new in the US? If so it should state it in the title of the post

  4. I don’t hate the idea of this site, but the data categorization seems fairly arbitrary. I appreciate the good intention and allyship behind this project, so please take this criticism as good faith.

    “Internet” shows as a negligible data point in the first graph, but then comes back as the largest portion of the “others” category. Do school district employees really need to go into the others category, or should they just be rolled in with teachers and aides, who are also school district employees. What separates all of the, presumably statutory crimes that are labelled by I assume age of the perpetrator from the family and friends category, or stranger, whatever other category would apply?

    The most powerful thing on this site is the proof that transgender people and drag queens represent a negligible portion of the perpetrators of child abuse sex crimes, and are unfairly maligned in the media. This point is reasonably well made near the top of the page, but the rest of the data presentation needs work. I applaud the noble effort, and I hope the people behind this keep refining it.

  5. *Scientists, economists, and general public want cleaner energy*

    Gov’t: “Meh”

    *Transnational Uber Corp wants cleaner energy:*

    Gov’t: “Your wish is my command.”

  6. It would help to know what specific data or visualization you’re referring to. Are you looking for trends in media coverage or something else?

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