> get access to data free from the priestly interpretations I believe nowhere. I almost never see news media hotlink the source when we're talking about online

> get access to data free from the priestly interpretations I believe nowhere. I almost never see news media hotlink the source when we're talking about online events. In other cases that's copywriting or regurgitating news agencies' feeds... which you don't have access to, though they could be clusterized based on the ripple effect they cause (used by many outlets). As for "talking to witnesses" there currently isn't a p2p social network for news. Where one could talk to any local on the planet about an event. There's a disconnect between those who produce news for a living and the witnesses. The latter have no interest in posting or talking about it online. Sometimes it is disincentivized (punishment and persecution like whistleblowing[1]). [1] "The psychology of whistleblowing": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X15001839 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X1... / https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.07.005 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.07.005