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Effective altruism probably has received minimal coverage in TV news because EA does not offer compelling content for TV news. EA doesn't have riveting visuals like a war zone, building fire, or local crime scene. EA won't help viewership for outlets and doesn't provide many newsworthy moments--even someone making a massive donation can only really get reported once. We often think about bias in the news media from an ideological perspective, but an even more important bias is the needs of the medium itself. TV news wants something new and interesting to s... (read more)

Cochrane is an important potential ally to EA. I'm technically a Cochrane author after being part of a team that submitted a review protocol, though I haven't been closely following their work over the past couple of years. Cochrane has traditionally been strong on evidence-based medicine and treatments, i.e., drugs. They have expanded in recent years to cover other important topics as well.

The typical Cochrane review is first proposed by a team of researchers in a protocol. The protocol is considered by a Cochrane Review Group (https://www.cochr... (read more)