This has become a hot button issue across many journalism industry blogs and sites in recent days. It started with a column in the Guardian, and now it is going viral.
A new paper out of MIT's Center for Civic Media uses Media Cloud and other tools to map how the story of Trayvon Marton's death was told -- and evolved.
The contestant is reflecting a cultural shift: "Now everything can be measured, quantified and reduced to statistical probabilities" The march of big data on a beloved game show.