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As protesters and armed anarchists seized control last month of a swath of Seattle’s downtown that includes a police station, dubbing it Capitol Hill Organized Protest, the local and mainstream media largely echoed elected leaders by insisting it was a peaceful protest – until people started getting killed.

The spin by the Seattle Times and national outlets that covered it belied the violent and dangerous origin of the area that began on June 8, when Seattle police abandoned their own station and allowed self-described anarchists to create a “police-free” zone. On Wednesday, police went back in and finished clearing out the area, after multiple shootings, an alleged rape and at least two murders.

“CHOP violently seized six blocks of downtown Seattle, guarded the area they stole with semi-automatic rifles and appointed a leader who called himself a warlord and the media spun it as a fun time with ‘free snacks,’” Washington Times columnist Tim Young told Fox News.

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“That’s as insane as saying Boko Haram was just trying to start a dating service when they kidnapped nearly 300 women in Nigeria a few years ago,” Young added. “And those liberal outlets probably still can’t figure out why people call them fake news.”

Since it was established, there have been at least four shootings, two of which left a 19-year-old and a 16-year-old dead in separate incidents. Seattle police made more than a dozen arrests after Mayor Jenny Durkan declared the gathering an unlawful assembly – a far cry from how it was originally portrayed by the media and by Durkan herself.

The mayor responded to criticism of her leadership by President Trump by tweeting that he should not be “so afraid of democracy.”

“The CHOP has become lawless and brutal,” Police Chief Carmen Best said Wednesday in a written statement. “Four shootings – two fatal – robberies, assaults, violence and countless property crimes have occurred in this several block area.”

The Seattle Times was perhaps the most egregious when it came to celebrating the cop-free area. The paper boasted about free snacks and pleasant smells inside the zone, called CHAZ at the time, on June 10.

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“Free snacks at the No-Cop Co-op. Free gas masks from some guy’s sedan. Free speech at the speaker’s circle, where anyone could say their piece. A free documentary movie – Ava DuVernay’s “13th” – showing after dark,” Seattle Times reporter Evan Bush wrote. “Perhaps most important to demonstrators, the neighborhood core was free of uniformed police.”

Bush described the area as “Seattle’s quirky, lefty Capitol Hill,” noting that organizers “envisioned education initiatives, programs to address homelessness and building a community movement where unarmed police are designed to de-escalate.”

The Seattle Times even reported on the delightful odor the “calm and peaceful crowd” were providing residents.

“The streets smelled like the Fourth of July, as people seared hot dogs on curbside grills,” Bush wrote.

The following day, the Seattle Times focused on poets and artists performing inside the area, noting that despite the “festival-like atmosphere” gatherers are often reminded they’re protesting, not partying.

By June 13, Seattle Times business reporter Paul Roberts praised the “community garden” and ways the demonstrators could “advance the goals” of the city’s “newest tourist attraction.”

“Dozens of people with rakes and wheelbarrows spread topsoil and chicken manure in newly planted gardens,” Roberts wrote. “Others gathered in small groups to discuss plans for no-till farming and fundraising for medical supplies.”

“It’s obvious to media consumers that journalists put protesters above property. It remains to be seen how they would greet an occupation of the Seattle Times. It probably depends on which political agenda you’re pushing,” NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham told Fox News.

“It’s also obvious that to cover something when you can glorify it as a ‘street festival’ and then stop covering it when people die, underlines why people dislike the fakery of liberal ‘news’ reporting,” Graham added, pointing to three recent NewsBusters studies as evidence.

While the Seattle Times celebrated CHOP on a local level, other mainstream news outlets raised eyebrows on a larger stage.

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NewsBusters reported on June 22 that CBS’ “Evening News” and “NBC Nightly News” both skipped coverage of a deadly shooting inside CHOP. Another study, conducted on June 23, indicated that evening newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC all ignored another shooting in the area.

“The networks had been actively trying to protect the encampment’s radicals from criticism. First, they turned a blind eye altogether, and when they had no choice but to cover the ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,’ as it was called at the time, they downplayed the craziness and provided cover,” Media Research Center news analyst Nicholas Fondacaro wrote after studying coverage of CHOP on ABC, NBC and CBS’ newscasts.

“When the shooting and killing started, they tried to cover it up. They refused to report on the black teen who was shot and killed in the zone last Saturday. And there was no mention of the Sunday or Tuesday shooting at any point during the week,” Fondacaro wrote. ”It was those shootings that were the impetus for the businesses and residents to band together and sue the city for not protecting their rights and property.”

University of North Carolina professor Lois A. Boynton is a fellow in the University’s Parr Center for Ethics. She feels coverage of CHOP “points to some of the basic challenges journalists, all media outlets, face when reporting on contentious and polarizing issues.”

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Boynton explained that biases can come from many things, including story angle, what gets emphasized and what doesn’t, who reporters select as sources and a reporter’s choice of words.

“Reporters, editors and producers need to be cognizant of how readers and viewers are interpreting their stories and what impact that may have on the community’s well-being and news outlet’s professional reputation,” Boynton told Fox News.

When Durkan announced last week that officials would end the police-free zone – CNN and MSNBC didn’t feel it was particularly newsworthy.

News broke during the 7 p.m. ET hour on Monday that Seattle’s mayor said the violence was distracting from changes sought by thousands of protesters seeking to address racial inequity and police brutality – but CNN’s 7 p.m. program, “Erin Burnett Outfront” did not mention the news as it unfolded.

CNN continued to ignore the news during its primetime programming, as there was no coverage on back-to-back editions of “Anderson Cooper 360” from 8-10 p.m. ET or during Don Lemon’s “CNN Tonight,” which aired from 10-midnight ET.

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MSNBC completely ignored CHOP altogether from 7-midnight ET on the day of Durkan’s announcement as “MSNBC Live,” “All in with Chris Hayes,” The Rachel Maddow Show,” “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell and “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” all declined to report the news of Seattle’s CHOP possibly drawing to a close.

“Most mainstream media outlets have bent over backward to portray the civil unrest as peaceful actions supporting the general aims of justice. That narrative gets largely disrupted if those news organizations now focus on the chaos in places like Seattle,” DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall told Fox News at the time.

The mainstream media narrative has extended to other stories, like St. Louis. CNN’s Chris Cuomo was accused of siding with the “mob” on Tuesday night during a contentious interview with Mark McCloskey, the man who went viral for brandishing a gun alongside his wife as the couple protected their home from protesters.

An attorney for McCloskey insisted the couple only retrieved their weapons after they observed multiple people in the crowd who were armed.

Fox News’ Stephen Sorace and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.  

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A veces pienso que estamos en los 80. Hay algo parecido. Cierta sensación de amenaza en el aire, cierto tono apocalíptico que se cuela a diario en las conversaciones, como si las cosas estuviesen todos los días y por un segundo al borde del desastre total.

Me imagino que no soy el único que capta ese zeitgeist de película de ciencia ficción barata hecha de acontecimientos imposibles que suceden a diario. Basta ver las noticias, que parecen sacadas de alguna película de Paul Verhoeven o de un cómic de Frank Miller, ambos artistas expertos en usar las paradojas de la utraviolencia para describir ciertos movimientos de la sociedad. No creo que exagere al mencionarlos a ambos. Películas como Robocop o Total recall y cómics como El caballero de la noche regresa o Give Me Liberty hacen un uso interminable y provechoso de los noticieros, reportajes periodísticos y programas de debate como telón de fondo de lo que relatan. Las historias centrales están ahí (las vidas un policía cíborg, un agente doble de Marte, un Batman terminal o una soldado de la III Guerra Mundial) acompañadas de todas esas notas sobre la vida cotidiana del futuro que se colaban como telón de fondo a lo que veíamos o leíamos por medio de pantallazos de televisores prendidos de modo perpetuo.

Kike Morandé, Cecilia Pérez, Checho Hirane, Marco Enríquez-Ominami, Alberto Mayol, Alejandro Guillier: todos parecen personajes de una película de los 80”.

Son las noticias de esos presentes falsos donde hay crisis económicas, campañas políticas, guerras lejanas, escándalos sexuales. A Miller y Verhoeven les encantaba meterlas, haciendo que en esas cintas o en esos cómics uno se sometiese a la locura hiperreal con la que sus creadores estaban representando el mundo en el que les tocaba vivir. Por supuesto, eran una broma, sátiras que jugaban con los hechos hasta volverlos imposibles e irreales, pero que aun así se constituían como comentarios descarnados sobre el presente de ciudades como Detroit o Nueva York, sobre el funcionamiento de las megacorporaciones, sobre la estupidez de los discursos nacionalistas del gobierno de Reagan y del pánico a la diferencia.

Que Verhoeven y Miller se solazaran con aquella estética, buscando en el shock cierta clase de belleza violenta y vulgar, sólo volvía más ambigua su lectura, pero no quitaba el hecho de que quien se acercase a esas obras estaba sometido a la intensidad de ese noticiario crónico, salido de un mundo imposible que prefiguraba nuestro presente.

No creo exagerar. Hay días en que es imposible no sentirse parte de una de esas ficciones, pensarse a uno mismo avanzando en el decorado de una obra de ciencia ficción barata de los 80, con todo el horror o la comedia cruel que eso implica. Pienso en eso al ver a Kike Morandé en el Consejo Ciudadano de Piñera, al lado de Marcelo Zunino, un futbolista devenido a la vez en participante de un reality y en concejal de RN por La Florida. O en la resurrección mediática de Checho Hirane y Alberto Plaza. O el deseo de Cecilia Pérez de sacar una semana del aire a Canal 13 porque Yerko Puchento se mofó de ella en su rutina. Pienso en eso al ver cualquier noticia del PS. O la conversación entre Tomás Mosciatti y Marco Enríquez-Ominami (algo podría estar en cualquiera de las viejas de RoboCop; otra esquirla robada a la CNN de los 80; dos voces superpuestas sin punto de encuentro, ME-O pensando en Mosciatti como un prueba de blancura que es incapaz de pasar). Pienso en eso al ver a Alberto Mayol en campaña (hay algo ahí interesante, un relato sobre una caída sorda: cómo el viejo analista del 2011 carga con la mochila de sus propias palabras, cómo desaparece cualquier elocuencia, cómo se convierte la claridad de un discurso en un laberinto que lo asfixia y lo ahoga, dejándolo sin nada que decir, paralizado frente a Felipe Kast, que le respondió de forma artera con una falacia ad hominem de manual, a la deriva frente a Beatriz Sánchez; hundido en una primaria que lo desborda).

O en la languidez en la que parece haberse sumergido la candidatura de Alejandro Guillier, donde nadie, ni sus adherentes o él mismo, parece creer en ella; todos lucen entregados, avanzando en círculos, peleando minucias con los partidos políticos, sin un comando de rostros definidos o potentes; atrapados en la promesa de un triunfo que no sólo se ve cada vez más lejos, sino que también ha perdido sentido como aventura, como épica.

Todas estas imágenes podrían estar en esas viejas películas e historietas. Fragmentos de un mundo en crisis. Voces sin sentido, discursos inverosímiles proyectados en una pantalla dentro de la pantalla, en una viñeta dentro de una viñeta en medio de la historia sobre cómo un policía robot y un vigilante vestido de cuero salen armados a cazar delincuentes en calles sin luz o fábricas vacías mientras esperan que una bomba atómica caiga sobre ellos. Pero son imágenes reales. Es lo que hay, los apuntes de esta semana, de estos días; las noticias falsas de un mundo verdadero o al revés; las noticias verdaderas de un mundo falso.

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Es por eso que intenta que sus jugadores intercambien ideas y formen opinión, especialmente en temas como el racismo. Cuando los jugadores como LaMarcus Aldridge, Pau Gasol, “Manu” Ginobili, Kawhi Leonard o Tony Parker, entre otros, llegaron al campamento de entrenamiento, les dieron a cada uno una copia de “Between the World and Me”, un libro de Ta-Nehisi Coates sobre la vida de la raza negra en Estados Unidos, y otra del film “The Birth of a Nation”, que trata sobre la rebelión de los esclavos en 1831.

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Ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who authored the unverified dossier charging collusion between Russia and Donald Trump, still believes former Trump attorney Michael Cohen held secret meetings in Prague despite the Justice Department not substantiating the claim.

The dossier alleged Cohen had “secret meeting/s with Kremlin officials in August 2016” in Prague. However, Cohen testified before the House Oversight Committee in 2019 that he had never been to Prague and the Justice Department was unable to confirm Steele’s claim after a lengthy investigation.

ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos sat down with Steele for a special, “Out of the Shadows: The Man behind the Steele Dossier,” and asked him about Cohen directly. 

“One big claim the dossier, the FBI, according to the Inspector General’s report … is not true, is the claim that Michael Cohen had a meeting with Russians in Prague,” Stephanopoulos said. “Do you accept that finding that it didn’t happen?” 

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Steele, who insisted the dossier is largely accurate throughout the interview, doesn’t buy Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz’s findings that Steele’s reporting couldn’t be corroborated. 

“No, I don’t,” Steele said. 

Cohen has since turned on Trump, sharing information about the former president with prosecutors. Cohen called Trump “a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man” and “amoral” in a book. 

But he still maintained the tale of his traveling to Prague in a Russian collusion-related plot was bogus. Cohen served prison time after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations and bank fraud, but was released to home confinement last year. 

Michael Cohen, former attorney to President Donald Trump, has long denied claims he meeting with Russians in Prague. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen, File)

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“Michael Cohen has completely turned on Donald Trump. He’s accused him of all kinds of things,” Stephanopoulos said. “It defies logic that if he did this, he wouldn’t say so now.” 

Steele didn’t agree. 

“It’s self-incriminating to a very great degree,” Steele said. 

Stephanopoulos asked what Cohen would be incriminating himself in, to which the dossier author responded, “Treason, presumably.”

Stephanopoulos shot back, “Since he’s gone to prison, since he’s turned on President Trump, he’s told every single story. Why wouldn’t he admit to this?”

“Because I think it’s so incriminating and demeaning and I think the other reason is he might be scared of the consequences,” Steele said.

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Stephanopoulos asked Steele if not believing the FBI, in this case, hurts his credibility.

“I am prepared to accept that not everything in the dossier is 100 percent accurate, I have yet to be convinced that that is one of them,” Steele said. 

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The questions surrounding Cohen’s alleged travel to Prague come from the dossier, which was published in January 2017 by BuzzFeed News, detailing salacious and unfounded allegations against Trump. Horowitz ripped the FBI in his report for heavily relying on the dossier to obtain surveillance warrants on Trump campaign official Carter Page.

In August 2017, Cohen denied the allegations made in the dossier, calling them “totally false.” Cohen’s attorney said Cohen “never traveled to Prague, Czech Republic, as evidenced by his passport” and “did not participate in meetings with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016.”

Former British spy Christopher Steele’s unverified dossier was a major element in warrant applications the FBI filled out to spy on Trump associate Carter Page.

When the dossier was first published, Cohen tweeted on Jan. 10, 2017: “I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews.”

Steele compiled information for the controversial file on behalf of Fusion GPS, which was hired to conduct opposition research funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign through law firm Perkins Coie.

Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Tyler Olson contributed to this report. 

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“There is an extremely high level of COVID in your community,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders said, addressing people in those places. She urged them to “respect the virus” and take steps such as wearing masks, staying 6 feet apart, washing their hands, and staying home from work if they are ill.

Citing average daily cases per 100,000 residents as a metric many states use to measure community health, Baker said the 33 communities, which had more than 4 cases per 100,000 residents “require specific strategies to attack COVID there, and to work with them to stop the spread.”

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Baker said he and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito had reached out to leaders in the high- and moderate-risk communities in the past couple of days “because we want to partner with them in whatever way makes the most sense to help them deal with the spread in their communities.”

He said the state’s “key strategy” was to work with local government. “Every community is different,” he said, but the state could help with “additional testing, tracing, and isolation resources. And we’re also implementing stepped-up enforcement measures, and we’ll also work with these communities on messaging and other communication strategies as we and they see fit.”

“The good news here should not get lost,” Baker said. “Three hundred eighteen communities here in Massachusetts are at or below national benchmarks with respect to containing COVID-19 in their communities.”

But he also warned, “I want to be clear on one point. Regardless of where your community sits, COVID is not going away. Your actions, no matter where you live or where you work, will determine in many respects how this virus spreads.”

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“We’re asking everyone to recognize that this virus continues to affect, injure, and kill people every single day,” he said.

The state released a color-coded map of all the cities and towns in the state showing them in red, yellow, green, and white, depending on their current level of coronavirus.

Baker said red indicated a community had more than 8 average daily cases per 100,000, yellow was 4 to 8 per 100,000, green was less than 4 per 100,000, and white indicated less than 5 total cases had been reported in the most recent 14 days.

Chelsea, Everett, Lynn, and Revere were the only communities marked in red on the map, which officials said would be updated weekly. Boston, Worcester, and Springfield were among the communities in yellow.

Baker noted that he had announced on Friday the creation of a multi-agency enforcement and intervention team and said its mission of ramping up enforcement and coordinating local intervention efforts “would make the most sense” in the moderate- and high-risk communities.

“The virus doesn’t care about boundaries. It certainly takes every opening any of us give it. We’re making progress and have made progress in our fight, but we have seen the effects of too many people letting your guard down,” he said.

Baker also suggested the numbers argued for letting children return to schools, something some parents in less-affected towns have advocated.

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“We would certainly hope that, based on this data, if you’re in a green or white community, I can’t imagine a good reason not to go back, whether it’s full-time or in some sort of a hybrid, because for all intents and purposes, you meet all the benchmarks that are being used across the country, across New England, to make decisions about whether it’s safe to go back to school,” he said.

Both Baker and Sudders emphasized the importance of wearing face coverings, especially for those in higher-risk communities.

”Masks work,” Sudders said. “Wear a face covering at all times when outside of your home.”

Sudders even urged people to consider wearing a mask inside their homes “if an older individual or someone with a compromised medical condition is part of your immediate household, and safe distancing cannot be maintained and other members of your household are going to work [or] participating in recreational activities outside the home.”

Sudders also noted that Baker’s new gathering order, which went into effect Tuesday, now requires face coverings at private events where more than 10 people from different households will be mixing.

Baker underscored that point, noting: “If you’re putting a bunch of people in your house or backyard and they’re not the immediate people you have in your house every day that you live with, people need to wear face coverings, and they need to respect the fact we have a lot of asymptomatic transmission going on.”

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Baker’s office didn’t immediately release a list, but a Globe review of the map indicated that, in addition to the four high-risk communities, the 29 moderate risk communities were: Northampton, Holyoke, Chicopee, Springfield, Longmeadow, Granby, Belchertown, Charlton, Auburn, Worcester, Marlborough, Framingham, Maynard, Wrentham, Taunton, Fall River, Brockton, Randolph, Quincy,Hull, Boston, Winthrop, Malden, Saugus, Peabody, Salem, Middleton, Lawrence, and Georgetown.

In other news from Baker’s news conference, the Republican governor expressed concern about the controversial executive order by Republican President Donald Trump to extend unemployment benefits to people in need during the pandemic.

Baker said his biggest concern was that the federal share of the benefits would come from money from Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief funds.

“You can make an argument, a credible one, that FEMA money would be an appropriate resource. It’s an emergency and all the rest,” he said. But he said the problem was that states were already expecting to apply for the FEMA funds as reimbursement for costs that they incurred in March, April, May, and June during the early days of the pandemic.

The unemployment funding “needs to be done through a separate appropriation, not by taking money from FEMA,” he said.

The coronavirus surged through the state this spring but is now at much lower levels. The state has recorded 8,741 confirmed and probable deaths from coronavirus as of Monday. One model says the death toll will likely climb over 10,000 by Dec. 1.

The state is in Phase 3 of a phased reopening process, but recent upticks in coronavirus metrics have sparked concerns among state officials and public health experts.

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Peter Bailey-Wells of the Globe staff contributed to this report.


Martin finucane can be reached at martin.finucane@globe.com Jaclyn Reiss can be reached at jaclyn.reiss@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter: @JaclynReiss

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President Donald Trump’s often-touted “border wall” has recently been referred to as “beautiful steel slats” by the president, a “beaded curtain” by California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, “semantics” by White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, and “not a wall” by outgoing White House chief of staff John Kelly. Finally, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that the wall was nothing more than a “metaphor” for border security.

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(CNN)Saudi Arabia has executed 37 men convicted of terror-related crimes, the kingdom’s official news agency said Tuesday.

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Eight Minnesota correctional officers working at the facility where fired police officer Derek Chauvin was held following his arrest for the murder of George Floyd say they were forbidden from coming into contact with him and have reportedly filed a complaint with the state’s Department of Human Rights.

The officers — all people of color — say they were told they would be a “liability” around Chauvin because of their race, The Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported. Chauvin is the white officer who was seen on video pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes as the Black man gasped for breath.

According to a copy of racial discrimination charges obtained by the newspaper, once Chauvin arrived at the Ramsey County Jail, officers of color were ordered to a separate floor. The only officers left to guard Chauvin were white and minority employees were prohibited from having contact with Chauvin, the Star Tribune reported. 

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Soria said in his statement that he was told that Mendoza and a council colleague, Ivan Altamirano, were having a conversation that had “become elevated” so he “went to the area to defuse any potential conflict.” He said that when he approached, he saw Mendoza on the floor “apparently unconscious,” and Altamirano “standing nearby with a facial injury.”

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¿Cómo reaccionaron los chilenos ante la elección de Donald Trump? ¿Cuál fue el impacto del caso SQM en los usuarios de Twitter?

Son preguntas que podrán hacerse periodistas, historiadores, profesionales de las ciencias sociales y ciudadanos en “Galean”, archivo digital de Twitter que reúne reacciones, opiniones, impresiones de los usuarios chilenos ante eventos noticiosos.

El archivo digital es obra de investigadores del Núcleo Milenio de la Web Semántica (CIWS), en conjunto con la Biblioteca Nacional. Allí los ciudadanos podrán explorar las reacciones de los usuarios ante eventos noticiosos.

Al igual que un archivo histórico, Galean es un sistema web de recolección y visualización de noticias chilenas extraídas desde Twitter.

“La idea general es que los medios chilenos en Twitter nos sirven de ‘semillas’ para extraer titulares importantes y nosotros luego recolectamos la mayor cantidad de tweets de personas naturales que hablen de cada noticia. Luego extraemos el lugar del cuál se trata la noticia y lo visualizamos en una interfaz interactiva”, señala Bárbara Poblete, investigadora del Núcleo Milenio CIWS.

Cabe destacar que en “Galean” se pueden encontrar todo tipo de noticias que hayan sido comunicadas en algún medio chileno con presencia en redes sociales, incluyendo medios nacionales y también medios de regiones.

“El sistema de recolección detecta y almacena eventos tanto de alto impacto, como de bajo impacto. Sin embargo, una noticia debe haber sido mencionada por más de un medio noticioso para que pueda ser detectada, aunque no sea usando las mismas palabras exactas. Es decir, mientras existan varios medios que reporten la noticia, Galean lo considerará”, explica Poblete.

“Creemos que periodistas, historiadores y cientistas sociales pueden sacarle mayor provecho en su trabajo diario pues Galean es muy simple de utilizar y no requiere de conocimientos extras”, finaliza la investigadora.

Galean estará disponible a usuarios partir del segundo semestre de 2017.








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Además de que la confianza del consumidor esté alcanzand
o nuevos niveles, cada día estamos creyendo más en que
podremos encontrar trabajo y que
la tasa de desempleo seguirá baja y la economía continuará expandiéndose. A su vez, la Federación Nacional de Empresas Independientes [National Federation of Independent Business] –que representa más de 300,000 negocios pequeños en Estados Unidos– precisó que sus miembros
están sintiendo el mismo optimismo. Las ventas al consumidor están fuertes, la inflación está baja y las empresas tienen acceso al capital necesario para operar y crecer. El mayor reto parece ser encontrar a personas calificadas para las posiciones disponibles. Todo esto
mientras la bolsa de valores ha llegado a niveles históricos de altura.

¿A la vista de estos datos,
por qué será que el estado de la economía está generando tan poca atención? La respuesta es de considerable importancia. Si bien es cierto que los medios de prensa están en todo su derecho al decidir por sí mismos qué es lo que califican como “noticia”, ya que están obligados a responder a los deseos de su audiencia, también es verdad que
estamos recibiendo pocos informes sobre el estado de la economía.

La falta de atención de los medios es preocupante, e inexplicable. Si consideramos cuántos votantes
calificaron la economía como el tema más importante de la elección del año pasado –y aún hoy en día–, es claro que a ellos les interesaría recibir más información sobre las reformas que se han venido aplicando desde enero, y sobre cómo afectarán la economía.

Basados en las encuestas, los reportes de empresas y los datos económicos originados en Washington, parece
que cada vez más empleadores –pequeños y grandes– tienen confianza en un futuro exitoso porque piensan que Washington no va imponer nuevos tributos y regulaciones. Durante los ocho años previos, empresas de todos los tamaños fueron forzadas a pagar nuevos y costosos beneficios de salud, y se vieron sometidas a regulaciones relacionadas con el pago de horas extras, la generación de electricidad, la calidad de la comida, la generación de ozono y muchas más. Y se vieron forzadas a desarrollar nuevos planes para protegerse de esas y otras regulaciones que podrían ser impuestas. Ahora, parece que eso está cambiando –y los trabajadores se están beneficiando–.

El Congreso y la Casa Blanca han trabajado de manera conjunta para revocar algunas reglas excesivas y dañinas que han impedido un mayor crecimiento económico. Hasta un cambio pequeño y no muy controversial –como facilitar la exportación del gas natural– parece que ayuda en la creación de empleos.

El punto es que los cambios políticos en Washington
están mejorando el clima para los negocios –como los críticos de un gobierno expansivo hemos propugnado durante largo tiempo–. A medida que las reglas y cargas se han ido relajando, se ha ido produciendo una mayor vitalidad económica y mejores condiciones para los trabajadores y los consumidores. Y el efecto se está sintiendo a todos los niveles.

Estos desarrollos son prometedores –pero no son suficientes–. Nuestros salarios no están creciendo de la manera en que deberían y el seguro de salud es muy costoso. De muchas maneras, la economía esta arreglada para que los más poderosos y mejor conectados puedan manipular las políticas para su beneficio personal.
Es hora de anivelar el campo para todos los estadounidenses. Con ese fin, los legisladores y la Casa Blanca deben trabajar juntos y proponer reformas sostenibles –sobre impuestos, cuidado de salud, inmigración y más–.

La reforma de impuestos es nuestro próximo obstáculo a vencer. Sin una reforma tributaria integral y robusta es probable que todos los recientes acontecimientos positivos en la economía puedan ser destruidos por otra recesión. Sabemos que si nuestro sistema de impuestos es más justo y nivelado, podemos ayudar a la economía y asegurar que los trabajadores estadounidenses se beneficien con un poco más de dinero para sus hogares. Nuestro sistema se ha vuelto tan injusto y complejo que cuando investigadores del gobierno enviaron la misma declaración a 19 diferentes preparadores de impuestos, solo dos pudieron determinar la cantidad correcta para el reembolso. ¿Si
hasta los profesionales pagados no entienden el sistema, cómo puede ser justo para el resto de nosotros? Esto tiene que cambiar.

Claramente, la sola acción del gobierno no es suficiente para desbloquear la economía y alcanzar la prosperidad.
Hay muchas cosas que podemos hacer a nivel comunitario para ayudar a los individuos a ubicarse mejor en el mercado de empleos. Lamentablemente, hay personas en nuestra comunidad que todavía están enfrentando muchas barreras, como no tener un diploma secundario, un nivel de inglés inadecuado o una licencia de conducir. Tenemos que
hacer mucho más para promover oficios y trabajos donde las habilidades sean valoradas. En el último sondeo, tres millones de trabajos están abiertos y disponibles, pero los empleadores no pueden encontrar personas que tengan la capacidad de desempeñarlos o las credenciales para calificar.

Los datos demuestran claramente que hay progresos en el mejoramiento de nuestra economía. Y
podemos hacer más. Pero los logros económicos pueden ser más significativos si estamos unidos, y si sostenemos la promesa de una oportunidad igualitaria.

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Angelica Salas, executive director of the nonprofit Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said her group has been meeting with others as part of a rapid response network of community organizations and attorneys, who are on call to provide legal representation to people arrested by immigration agents.

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Un fuerte sismo producido el domingo por la noche en Arequipa causó la muerte de cuatro personas, según informó el Gobierno Regional de Arequipa.

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Según el Instituto Geofísico del Perú (IGP), el movimiento telúrico más fuerte ocurrió a las 21:58 p.m. fue de 5,3 grados en la escala de Richter, ocho kilómetros de profundidad, y tuvo su epicentro en Maca, un distrito de Caylloma. 

Tres personas murieron en el distrito de Yanque y una en Achoma Achoma (Caylloma). Además, 52 personas han resultado heridas.

Entre las personas que perdieron la vida se encuentran una de 70 años y otra de 80, además de una menor de entre 9 y 10 años y un turista. Inicialmente la gobernadora Yamila Osorio informó que nueve personas habían muerto pero luego dio a conocer que la cifra oficial era menor.

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También se registraron sismos más leves por la madrugada del lunes, en la misma localidad a la 1:36 a.m., con una magnitud de 3,7 grados, y otro a las 5:35 a.m., de 3,6 grados.

La gobernadora Yamila Osorio señaló que las cifras de los daños podrían ser mayores y que esta información está siendo recabada por las autoridades locales.

Agregó que se espera la llegada de ayuda humanitaria de la capital pues los recursos de la región no son suficientes para atender la emergencia, acontecida en plena celebración del aniversario de Arequipa.

“Creemos que los daños son mucho más graves de lo que nos han informado. La noche nos ha dificultado poder brindar cifras más exactas”, dijo Osorio a Canal N, tras apelar a campañas de solidaridad para mitigar los efectos del desastre.

“Ya salieron muy temprano, a las 4 am., módulos de vivienda hacia la zona. (…). Hemos coordinado con el jefe de Indeci (Instituto de Defensa Civil) para que también vaya trasladando los almacenes de la zona sur de regiones vecinas, porque necesitamos muchísimo apoyo. Los primeros reportes dicen que nuestros almacenes no van a ser suficientes para esta tragedia”, indicó a RPP.

El sismo generó la obstrucción de las  vías que conectan a Chivay, capital de la provincia de Caylloma. En los alrededores se presentaron deslizamientos en los cerros y se obstaculizó el paso vehicular, asimismo  se ha pedido que se restrinjan los viajes a Caylloma y se ha obstruido el acceso al Cañón del Colca.

Aunque las cifras proporcionadas por el gobierno regional indican que alrededor de 150 viviendas quedaron inhabitables, el subprefecto del distrito de Achoma, Fabio Mamani, informó a diario Correo que, solo en su localidad, de las 300 viviendas existentes, todas se encuentran en dichas condiciones.

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La noche, que comenzó siendo una fiesta netamente carnavalera y popular, terminó con un enfrentamiento entre un grupo de personas y un grupo de choque de la Policía local.

Los 23 detenidos fueron recuperando la libertad, a lo largo de la jornada de este domingo, por disposición judicial.

El hecho tuvo su punto central en los alrededores de la Plaza Treinta y Tres Orientales, lugar de la culminación de una multitudinaria y colorida fiestas, que había comenzado en la Plaza Artigas, lugar de partida de este desfile.

Ya en esa Plaza comenzaron los primeros incidentes entre personas que estaban alcoholizadas y drogadas, quienes intentaban enfrentarse a la Policía, cuando los agentes intentaban poner orden.

Mas tarde y ya avanzada la madrugada cuando la última comparsa culminó su actuación y la fiesta inaugural concluía comenzaron las primeras corridas y apedreos contra los uniformados.

Éstos, al no poder calmar a los inadaptados, recurrió al uso de la fuerza para proceder a la detención de las 23 personas que ayer declararon en el juzgado y quedaron libres. Entre los detenidos hubieron dos mujeres y siete adolescentes.

En este procedimiento resultaron heridos dos policías, uno de ellos en el rostro producto del impacto de un trozo de hormigón y otro en una pierna con similar objeto.

Según informaron a El País, fuentes policiales, en la próximas horas los efectivos heridos realizarán una denuncia penal a causa de este ataque.

Esta situación no es nueva en los desfiles del departamento salteño.

Los mismos cobran más intensidad cuando aumenta el uso de drogas y alcohol en el lugar y bandas de adolescentes y jóvenes se enfrentan, provocando la intervención de la Policía, punto culmine de este tipo de enfrentamientos.

Seguridad para las llamadas

En Montevideo, se ultiman los preparativos para el tradicional desfile de llamadas, que se realizará el próximo jueves 5 y viernes 6 de febrero, por los barrios Sur y Palermo. La Intendencia de Montevideo y Jefatura de Policía anunciaron ya previo al desfile inaugural un importante operativo que tendrá casi 600 funcionarios policiales y municipales, monitoreando la zona donde se realizará el desfile, durante dos jornadas.

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Claudio Baeza entrenó sin problemas este viernes con Colo Colo y aparece con posibilidades de decir presente mañana en la visita de los albos a Santiago Wanderers, en Valparaíso.

El polifuncional futbolista del ‘Cacique’ había quedado en duda el jueves para el pleito por la sexta fecha del Torneo de Clausura al no ser parte de la práctica encabezada por Pablo Guede, debido a una molestia en la rodilla derecha.

La situación incomodó en demasía a Guede, ya que presenta con antelación las bajas en defensa de Matías Zaldivia, quien se lesionó en la ida con Botafogo por la Copa Libertadores, y de Fernando Meza, quien se recupera de un esguince en el ligamento colateral medial de una de sus rodillas.

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No obstante, el nacido en Los Angeles hoy dijo presente en los trabajos del elenco popular y no presentó problemas en la rodilla, por lo que formará parte de la delegación viajera a la capital de la Quinta Región.

Colo Colo, líder exclusivo del campeonato con 13 puntos de 15 posibles, visitará a los pupilos de Eduardo Espinel a las 12:00 horas de este sábado 11 de marzo en el Estadio Elías Figueroa.

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Hong Kong (CNN)The threat of violence hung over Hong Kong Thursday evening as thousands of student protesters prepared to face off with riot police, amid a continued occupation of several of the city’s most prestigious universities.

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    North Korean state media on Sunday showed leader Kim Jong Un observing live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a new short-range ballistic missile, a day after South Korea expressed concern that the launches were a violation of an inter-Korean agreement to cease all hostile acts.

    Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim expressed “great satisfaction” over Saturday’s drills and stressed that his front-line troops should keep a “high alert posture” and enhance combat ability to “defend the political sovereignty and economic self-sustenance of the country.”

    The weapons launches were a likely sign of Pyongyang’s growing frustration at stalled diplomatic talks with Washington meant to provide coveted sanctions relief in return for nuclear disarmament. They also highlighted the fragility of the detente between the Koreas, which in a military agreement reached last September vowed to completely cease “all hostile acts” against each other in land, air and sea.

    South Korea said it’s “very concerned” about North Korea‘s weapons launches, calling them a violation of the agreements to reduce animosities between the countries. The statement, issued after an emergency meeting Saturday of top officials at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, also urged North Korea to stop committing acts that would raise military tensions and join efforts to resume nuclear diplomacy.

    “Praising the People’s Army for its excellent operation of modern large-caliber long-range multiple rocket launchers and tactical guided weapons, he said that all the service members are master gunners and they are capable of carrying out duty to promptly tackle any situation,” the KNCA paraphrased Kim as saying. “He stressed the need for all the service members to keep high alert posture and more dynamically wage the drive to increase the combat ability so as to defend the political sovereignty and economic self-sustenance of the country and … the security of the people from the threats and invasion by any forces.”

    The North’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper published photos that showed Kim, equipped with binoculars, observing tests of different weapons systems, including multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a short-range missile fired from a launch vehicle, and also an explosion of what seemed to be a target set on island rocks.

    Kim Dong-yub, an analyst from Seoul’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies, said the North Korean missile appeared to be modeled after Russia’s 9K720 Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missile system. The solid-fuel North Korean missile, which was first revealed in a Pyongyang military parade in February, is potentially capable of conducting nuclear strikes on all areas of South Korea, Kim said.

    “The North tried to clearly demonstrate its abilities to strike any target on the Korean Peninsula, including U.S. troops stationed across the country in areas such as Seoul, Pyeongtaek, Daegu and Busan,” Kim said.

    South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said that “several projectiles” had been launched from near the coastal town of Wonsan and that they flew up to 200 kilometers (125 miles) before splashing into the sea toward the northeast. That roughly matched the distance between the area and the South Korean capital of Seoul, although the North in Sunday’s report did not issue any direct threat or warning toward the South or the United States. Experts say the North may increase these sorts of low-level provocations to apply pressure on the United States to agree to reduce crushing international sanctions.

    The launches comes amid a diplomatic breakdown that has followed the failed summit earlier this year between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un over the North’s pursuit of nuclear bombs that can accurately target the U.S. mainland. The North probably has viable shorter-range nuclear armed missiles, but it still needs more tests to perfect its longer-range weapons, according to outside analysts.

    Trump said Saturday that he still believes a nuclear deal with North Korea will happen. He tweeted that Kim “fully realizes the great economic potential of North Korea, & will do nothing to interfere or end it.”

    Trump added: “He also knows that I am with him & does not want to break his promise to me. Deal will happen!”

    Pyongyang has recently demanded that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo be removed from nuclear negotiations and criticized national security adviser John Bolton. North Korea also said last month that it had tested a new type of unspecified “tactical guided weapon.”

    North Korea could choose to fire more missiles with longer ranges in coming weeks to ramp up its pressure on the United States to come up with a roadmap for nuclear talks by the end of this year, said Nam Sung-wook, a professor at Korea University.

    “North Korea wants to say, ‘We have missiles and nuclear weapons to cope with (U.S.-led) sanctions,'” Nam said. “They can fire short-range missiles a couple more times this month, and there is no guarantee that they won’t fire a medium-range missile next month.”

    North Korea last conducted a major missile test in November 2017 when it flight-tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that demonstrated potential capability to reach deep into the U.S. mainland. That year saw a string of increasingly powerful weapons tests from the North and a belligerent response from Trump that had many in the region fearing war.

    During the diplomacy that followed those weapons tests, Kim said that the North would not test nuclear devices or ICBMs. The short-range projectiles launched on Saturday don’t appear to violate that self-imposed moratorium, and they may instead be a way to register Kim’s displeasure with Washington without having the diplomacy collapse.

    South Korea’s liberal president, Moon Jae-in, has doggedly pursued engagement with the North and is seen as a driving force behind the two summits between Trump and Kim.

    South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha talked by phone with Pompeo about the North Korean launches. The Foreign Ministry also said that South Korea’s chief nuclear envoy, Lee Do-hoon, had a telephone conversation with Stephen Biegun, the U.S. special representative for North Korea who is scheduled to travel to Seoul next week for talks.

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    Associated Press writers Foster Klug and Hyung-jin Kim contributed to this report.

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