The left, the right. Overculture and underculture

[SuburbanFarmer]

Great article. Lots to think about in there.

[Hwen Hoshino]

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[Montegriffo]

Guys, I think there exists a huge market for objective news blogging in very short articles that link to other articles for more depth if the reader wishes.

Think of it like this.. When you consume news, you are actually conducting a search into an information space. People who only read long articles are typically doing a depth-first search. People who just want to read the headlines are doing a breadth-first search. Both have advantages. A depth-first search provides you with detailed knowledge of a small set of issues. That set is bounded by the amount of time you have available to devote to reading these articles. A breadth-first search provides you with maximal coverage to get some idea of the big picture, but not much detail as to the whys and the hows.

I propose a blogging site that serves a hybrid search strategy.

The way to do it is to create some kind of ontological representation of news that is easily navigable (like how your news sections are currently organized as the obvious first choice). Then organize stories in such a way that you have a list with maybe a short paragraph beneath each headline (should be the lede). If somebody clicks the link, they will go to a page with no more than about four paragraphs (not current news paragraphs of one sentence, but a normal academic paragraph) that boil the story down to its factual essence. At the bottom, you list links to various in-depth stories at other news sites on the topic from different and opposing perspectives.

The idea here is that you don't cater news to a person's interests and political persuasion. You try to create an objective picture of what is going on in the news as a whole. Then you link to stories from different viewpoints so a reader can gain a greater grasp of what everybody is thinking.

The angle or approach of such a blog would be to look at news as objectively as possible. The idea is not to promote or push an agenda. It's just to catalog what is going on in the news and how various sides are interpreting the news.

In a separate section, it might be interesting to blog about the differences in reporting between various sides on an issue and discuss the different worldviews that lead to those differences. The idea is not to persuade anybody, but just to pursue an objective perspective on the news itself. A kind of meta view of the news.

Like.. if an alien came to Earth and started reading the various news, he wouldn't read the news as a conservative or progressive. He wouldn't have any skin in this game. He would just look at it all as it is. That's a valuable way to approach news as it's own entity.

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