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TABLE 2.5:
Main topics covered by the news pairs and keywords
characteristic for CNN or Al Jazeera.
Topic
Iran, nuclear, Palestinian, Israel, Gaza, EU, enrichment, IAEA
CNN
EU, Iran, Rice, militant, Aceh, diplomats, monitoring, encouraging
AJ
resume, Rafsanjani, research, atomic, Russian, sanctions, reference
Topic
Iraq, Baghdad, Hussein, Shiite, trials, insurgents, troops
CNN
insurgents, Hussein, attorney, Kember, family, British
AJ
shia, Sunnis, occupation, Saddam, rebels, attack, killed, car
Topic
Palestinian, Gaza, Israel, Sharon, Hamas, Abbas, militant
CNN
militant, Israel, pullout, missiles, launch, Putin, Beirut, jews
AJ
settlers, Hamas, barriers, Israeli, clashes, Hezbollah, farms, suffer
Topic
Iran, nuclear, enrichment, IAEA, program, uranium, EU, council
CNN
EU, Aceh, offered, monitoring, Iran, united, Bush, Britain, mission
AJ
Tehran, resume, research, atomic, Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad, reference
Topic
Iraqi, Palestinian, Baghdad, Iran, Gaza, nuclear, shiite, Hamas
CNN
militant, insurgents, terrorists, forces, cross, outlet, Hussein
AJ
shia, Israeli, fighters, Sunnis, squad, farms, occupation, gunmen
Topic
Lebanon, Syria, Hariri, assassination, beirut, opposition
CNN
Rafik, cooperation, son, rice, Hezbollah, Syria, Hussam, form
AJ
Lebanese, Rafiq, Christian, opposition, Aoun, Baath, assassination
Topic
Afghanistan, London, Pakistan, Egyptian, Muslim, Guantanamo
CNN
Reuters, Taliban, friends, helicopter, investigate, Quran
AJ
Zarqawi, Zawahri, village, Sharm, channel, Pakistani, rocket
Topic
Baghdad, Iraq, Saddam, Sunnis, Shiite, trials, Sharon, vote
CNN
Hussein, insurgents, Baquba, troops, attorney, turnout, rocket
AJ
shia, Mosul, marine, interior, raids, Olmert, violence, toppled
Topic
prisoners, Guantanamo, detainees, Saddam, court, judge, torture
CNN
Hussein, detainees, camp, Ghraib, bay, prisoners, witnessed, Quran
AJ
judge, Pentagon, mr, detention, responsibility, refuses, holy
Topic
bombs, attack, police, blasts, killed, Egyptian, Sharm, explosion
CNN
insurgents, Aziz, suicide, Jordanian, kilometers, helicopter
AJ
toll,striking,Romanian,town,fighters,hit,army,ambassador
2.6 News Outlets Map
In the second set of experiments we used all four news outlets: Al Jazeera
(AJ), CNN, Detroit News (DN), and International Herald Tribune (IHT),
gathered in the same time interval.
The goal of this experiment was to represent news outlets as points on a
map so that 'similar' news outlets would appear closer to each other on the
map than 'not-so-similar' news outlets. We wanted the distance to reflect
the bias of the news outlet, either in lexical choices or in the overall choice
of topics to cover. This led to two approaches: the first defined a distance
based on the lexical choices while the second approach was based on the topics
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