Currently, Burma is a flurry of activity. Protests are happening every day, everywhere, in all forms. People have been arrested and killed every day. Nightly, there have been raids and abductions. Civil servants have increasingly joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). The families of the military have been pressured to speak out or receive “social punishment.” Telecommunications services have been intermittent.
I wanted to see how different the coverage was for these movements in each outlet. The Irrawaddy, with its larger corpora and news base, would be more extensive in the coverage, and I thought that would skew the data. As shown above, most of the selected topics are covered at almost the same rate in both papers. Having read the articles, I know that that the coverage that the Irrawaddy has is much more extensive, but the general topics surprisingly overlap.
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