By 1: The article has a narrative. I’m not entirely sure what the narrative here is, perhaps “the far right is attacking democracy across the world”?
By 5 and 10 and 4 and 8 and … and “A stronger version, with less qualifications or weasel words, would have been against the rules”: The article is presenting a maximally biased view of the matter, based on careful selection of the evidence. I guess the big question mark from the story is, what were the protesters’ motivations for it? Zvi’s rules would seem to suggest that they are suppressing information about the protesters’ motivations, and that this information would undermine the articles’ narrative. They also talk about the protestors entering government buildings, but never about any people working in those buildings being afraid or hurt, so according to Zvi’s rules this would imply that the buildings were empty or something.
By 6 and 7 and 11: The article is often not coming up with the journalist’s own views, but instead repeating the views of others, which the rules suggest are pretty biased. For instance the key event was something that “Reuters witnesses said”. Since Reuters is pushing the “attack on democracy” narrative, probably according to Zvi’s rules this means that the police were a lot more brutal than implied by the article (which combined with the assumption that the protestors have honorable motivations would imply that this has been a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests).
If I was seeing this interpretation in the wild, my median guess would be that it was a batshit crazy conspiracy theory. But again I don’t know much about the situation so I would be curious if anyone knows anything that can be said about it.
They also talk about the protestors entering government buildings, but never about any people working in those buildings being afraid or hurt, so according to Zvi’s rules this would imply that the buildings were empty or something.
Interesting idea.
I’ll do a simplified trial run. I went in to Reuters and picked this top article, Brazilian troops clear pro-Bolsonaro camp after protesters storm capital, which is about a subject that I know ~nothing about.
Now according to Zvi, the rules seem to say:
By 1: The article has a narrative. I’m not entirely sure what the narrative here is, perhaps “the far right is attacking democracy across the world”?
By 5 and 10 and 4 and 8 and … and “A stronger version, with less qualifications or weasel words, would have been against the rules”: The article is presenting a maximally biased view of the matter, based on careful selection of the evidence. I guess the big question mark from the story is, what were the protesters’ motivations for it? Zvi’s rules would seem to suggest that they are suppressing information about the protesters’ motivations, and that this information would undermine the articles’ narrative. They also talk about the protestors entering government buildings, but never about any people working in those buildings being afraid or hurt, so according to Zvi’s rules this would imply that the buildings were empty or something.
By 6 and 7 and 11: The article is often not coming up with the journalist’s own views, but instead repeating the views of others, which the rules suggest are pretty biased. For instance the key event was something that “Reuters witnesses said”. Since Reuters is pushing the “attack on democracy” narrative, probably according to Zvi’s rules this means that the police were a lot more brutal than implied by the article (which combined with the assumption that the protestors have honorable motivations would imply that this has been a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests).
If I was seeing this interpretation in the wild, my median guess would be that it was a batshit crazy conspiracy theory. But again I don’t know much about the situation so I would be curious if anyone knows anything that can be said about it.
I don’t know about the other stuff, but https://www.vox.com/world/2023/1/9/23546507/brazil-bolsonaro-lula-capital-invasion-january-8 says
Oops, they seem to have updated it over time, I should probably have made an archive link.