Bibliographic record
Abstract
This precious mess. Democracy. How much can be done in its name before, like an egg consumed by a snake, it becomes merely a shell? Ann-Marie MacDonald On August 1, 1995, the New York Times carried a front-page story boldly captioned “Walt Disney Acquiring ABC in Deal Worth $19 Billion; Entertainment Giant Born.” In slightly smaller type, next to the photograph of a laughing Michael D. Eisner, chairman of Walt Disney, and an apparently self-satisfied Thomas S. Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC, the subtitle read “Wall St. Stunned.” The merger combined one of the world’s largest entertainment companies, whose sales in 1994 exceeded $10 billion, with one of the world’s largest media companies, with total sales that year of over $6 billion. At the time it was the second-largest takeover in the history of American corporate capitalism. Meanwhile, back at the Republican ranch in Washington, D.C., Congress was stampeding toward approval of legislation to deregulate American telecommunications industries, in the name of fostering competition. On July 31, however, the New York Times , hardly a disinterested party, had run an editorial condemning the bill as “A Threat to Media Diversity,” a theme also sounded in President Clinton’s promise that evening to veto the telecommunications bill – just hours after the Walt Disney Company announced its plans to take over Capital Cities/ABC. Within days Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1994 sales of just under $9 billion) had agreed to pay $5.4 billion to acquire the broadcast network CBS Inc. (1994 sales of $3.7 billion); the House of Representatives had signed its blank check for the nation’s telecommunications industries to merge and gouge at will; and the New York Times had run several critical commentaries to complement its own detailed coverage of media merger mania.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 0.010 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".