Charles Mercieca

Introduction: Why Text Mine the Local News? Media ‘slant’ is a fascinating topic. Ask anyone who reads the news, and they’ll probably have a reason for choosing one media source over another. Invariably, that reason often turns out to be because, according to them, the one they read isn’t biased and all the others are. The starting point of this post was an attempt to recreate this graph for the local news context. [Read More]