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well gpm's idea doesn't necessarily involve any writing from my read of it. Actually I'd like to see a news site that has no story telling, no explainers, no n
by fouc 5y ago
well gpm's idea doesn't necessarily involve any writing from my read of it.
Actually I'd like to see a news site that has no story telling, no explainers, no narrative. Just the core facts as much as possible, but presented over a timeline. So the timeline itself ends up providing the narrative/structure to a large extent.
- gpm 5y agoAs little writing as possible anyways. I end up giving titles to events, but that's about it. Just the facts news would be interesting, the practical problem is it would also be labor intensive - since you end up needing to write your own (short) article for every story, and understanding the story well enough to do a good job at that. I sort of hope that my site is the 80/20 version of that for people looking for that, by approximating it without actually doing it. Or maybe it could be a useful source of facts for someone who did want to make a news site that did that.
- ComputerGuru 5y agoEven just curation without text still risks an agenda. WaPo is famous for this: when there is something happening they want to take a position on, their entire homepage becomes every nitty gritty news piece or reflection that would push one via sheer inundation into supporting their cause with shock and rage. Edit: maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned any names; it seems some people took that as an attack on their particular herd.
- gladinovax 5y agosome folks are super touchy here nowadays. Sad.