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Folklore and the news

Probably The Vanishing Hitchhiker next, for bignews.day.

I follow geopolitics, but what really holds me is how the news turns events into stories, and how those stories shape what people believe about politics. bignews.day is how I look into it: it follows 145 outlets and classifies the recurring narratives in political claims, in an index grounded in folklore scholarship. Folklore isn't only in old books; it's in tonight's chyron.