breakingNews

A piece about the negative and aggressive tendencies of news media. Compares live world news feeds from yahoo.com and bbc.co.uk against a database of synonyms of the word “aggression,” then outputs the matches as angry, fighting capsules. More matches return more, and angrier, capsules. Refreshes every minute.

My original intent with this piece was to prove that the U.S. media reported the news in a more aggressive fashion than its European counterparts. This has turned out to be a false presumption.

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Windows | Mac OS X | Platform-free .jar (requires JRE 1.4.2+)