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Pessimism in News Media Headlines

from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI

In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
1st Jun 2023

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