Over time, financial pressures at news outlets have made investigative reporting more difficult to finance. This is a reasonable hypothesis. It cannot be stated as an objective scientific fact without evidence to support it.This reality is a good reason to retain a note of scepticism for much of the opinion expressed on a typical op-ed page.
However, in one possible world with unlimited journalistic resources, empirical quantitative and qualitative evidence would be mustered to support op-ed pieces and also conclusions reached by 'experts' expressing their opinions in news articles, which is a pretty common form of editorializing that does exclude certain pontetially opposing voices.
Automate digital news production workflow using Python multimedia and AI packages.
I worked for 11 years for the Bangkok Post crafting the news for Thai English learners.
The reverse approach is taken here, namely crafting the Thai news for Thai language learners.
- rss2json.py: Retrieve an online RSS feed and convert to JSON format.
- voa_thai_feed.json: VOA Thai News RSS feed converted to JSON format.
- json2articles.py: Extracting news articles from JSON RSS feed file and writing to text files.
- rss2mp3.py: Choose an VOA news in Thai language RSS feed, then choose a story in the feed, then write text to .txt file, and make text-to-speech MP3 audio file.
- Thai Interlinear: Inserting English definitions in parentheses after Thai words in a Thai text.
Spacy is an open-source software library for advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in Python.
- Paraphrasing & Similarity Tools: Tools for paraphrasing a text and then checking that the paraphrased text does not too closely resemble the original (i.e. no plagiarism).