The Tyranny of Numbers in the Media

Last August (2015) was the 70th. anniversary of many World War II events. The bombing of Hiroshima, the bombing of Nagasaki and the surrender of Japan. Out of curiosity, on August 15th (yes, the anniversary of the surrender of Japan) I did a Google News search on the Internet. The results:

Hiroshima:            10,200,000 citations

Nagasaki:              4,800,000 citations

Japan surrenders       22,000 citations

 

A media bias about the ending of World War II? Numbers don’t lie.