Why would I trust you/your friends as researchers? Establishment journalism has problems, but you're basically suggesting that you do the same journalistic tasks, except one source removed from the truth and without any backing.
Ask HN: Would you wait a day for less biased, more reliable curated news?
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Re: Ask HN: Would you wait a day for less biased, more reliable curated news?
#12In the modern media environment of shock, outrage, and anything for eyeballs, people seem to enjoy indulging in bias and have little interest in "more reliable" because they prefer to confirm existing bias and dismiss any facts that are contrarian to their own existing opinions.
It's going to be tough to overcome that.
Re: Ask HN: Would you wait a day for less biased, more reliable curated news?
#13No, I prefer more sites with useful content like HN. MSM is not useful at all.
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#14Impossible. Your own biases consciously or sub-consciously would ultimately skew the curation. Facebook ran into this issue a little while ago with trending topics. If they did it manually, it was skewed. If they did in algorithmically, it was skewed based on whoever wrote the algorithm. The only possible way that I could see this working is if you had 3 columns: Left-wing, right-wing, and relatively unbiased (all ne…
That was what we had in mind! I guess instead of saying we're trying to be "less biased", we should be focusing on "what both left and right-wing leaning news are saying", as long as the information is correct.
Re: Ask HN: Would you wait a day for less biased, more reliable curated news?
#15I'd be willing to wait, but you probably wouldn't be able to write unbiased news with one day and two people. Bias is not something you do on purpose, it's something you have to work very hard to avoid.
We're not thinking of writing a new piece of article for each given topic, but more going towards giving a list of maybe 2 or 3 link to articles that can fully describe the happening of an event.
And as I mentioned in another comment[0], our goal to be "less biased" is to feed readers(other people in the loop) other sides of the story as well, as long as the facts are correct.
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#16tldr; I'm pessimistic about this This is a hard problem I think. Sometimes news that is interesting and popular is also controversial or just click-bait BS, so you have an ethical vs. interesting news dichotomy. Day-old-news will probably not be interesting to people who already read and discussed the topic the day before. Also consider that if only a few people are curating it there will be other discrediting flaws…
Out idea was close to your edit, we're mainly focusing on curating new for our own group, but thinking of putting it on a blog style. If someone may be interested reading it along, we'd be more than welcome to share it.
Re: Ask HN: Would you wait a day for less biased, more reliable curated news?
#17Impossible. Your own biases consciously or sub-consciously would ultimately skew the curation. Facebook ran into this issue a little while ago with trending topics. If they did it manually, it was skewed. If they did in algorithmically, it was skewed based on whoever wrote the algorithm. The only possible way that I could see this working is if you had 3 columns: Left-wing, right-wing, and relatively unbiased (all ne…
That was what we had in mind! I guess instead of saying we're trying to be "less biased", we should be focusing on "what both left and right-wing leaning news are saying", as long as the information is correct.
Curious what would be considered left leaning and right leaning and whether or not an "equal time" approach might reflect a bias.
Re: Ask HN: Would you wait a day for less biased, more reliable curated news?
#18Impossible. Your own biases consciously or sub-consciously would ultimately skew the curation. Facebook ran into this issue a little while ago with trending topics. If they did it manually, it was skewed. If they did in algorithmically, it was skewed based on whoever wrote the algorithm. The only possible way that I could see this working is if you had 3 columns: Left-wing, right-wing, and relatively unbiased (all ne…
That was what we had in mind! I guess instead of saying we're trying to be "less biased", we should be focusing on "what both left and right-wing leaning news are saying", as long as the information is correct.
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#20This is what newspapers are for.