The week our yardstick changed hands

A border crisis between Spain and Morocco, told by ten countries, none of which is Morocco. This is not Moroccan silence: our collection runs there — twenty-nine articles in forty-four hours — but with only two mastheads and a median length of 363 characters, that is feed summaries, not articles. The second protagonist is missing through our fault, not its own.

India is one of the main buyers of Venezuelan crude: if Washington controls access to it, India's supply moves. Yet it is absent from the thirteen perspectives — a single article, a single masthead in our corpus, below the two-distinct-sources threshold we impose on ourselves. A collection gap, not an attention gap.

Washington suspends immigrant visa appointments worldwide, and the American press is absent from the ten perspectives. The decision is told by those who bear it — five Latin American countries, Bangladesh, Pakistan — and by France. The country making the decision is not in the corpus: our collection did not find two distinct American mastheads on this subject within the window.