We need automatic compilation, to fight that trend.
When all you get from the news is the current political spin of the latest scandal to make your party look good, you need to record who is saying what to start to see trends in what may be the truth, piecing together the bits of verifiable information they offer.
Now this is too much to do manually. A fact-counterfact format on "public discourse" sites like Kialo[1] is useful to collect the evolution of known facts over news, but it's too slow to do by hand. A news aggregator that collected partisan claims from both sides in breaking news would allow journalists to analyse the big picture, being able to report the story based on published facts and not just hearsay.
An additional advantage is that it would allow readers to contrast the bias of individual journalists, seeing which facts they emphasise and which they ignore. It would also serve as an ever-growing database of public discourse like we used to have in the days of printing press and newspaper libraries, when what was published remained unchanged and could be checked out.
When all you get from the news is the current political spin of the latest scandal to make your party look good, you need to record who is saying what to start to see trends in what may be the truth, piecing together the bits of verifiable information they offer.
Now this is too much to do manually. A fact-counterfact format on "public discourse" sites like Kialo[1] is useful to collect the evolution of known facts over news, but it's too slow to do by hand. A news aggregator that collected partisan claims from both sides in breaking news would allow journalists to analyse the big picture, being able to report the story based on published facts and not just hearsay.
An additional advantage is that it would allow readers to contrast the bias of individual journalists, seeing which facts they emphasise and which they ignore. It would also serve as an ever-growing database of public discourse like we used to have in the days of printing press and newspaper libraries, when what was published remained unchanged and could be checked out.
[1] https://www.kialo.com/