OMG, this the startup idea I have been pitching for 10 years, and everybody laughs at me when I pitch it. Newspapers need to pivot away from "telling stories a

OMG, this the startup idea I have been pitching for 10 years, and everybody laughs at me when I pitch it. Newspapers need to pivot away from "telling stories about things that happen" in articles and headlines, to organizations that gather information into some large interconnected database. They should collect and record testimony from witnesses, press releases and statements. Court recordings and findings. They should be able to take any "fact" and trace back to who claimed it, where, and when. Then, when you have a solid foundation, you can put a front end on it with commentators musing on various topics, or digging deeper looking for meaning, or cause and effects. Newspapers could be the organizations we go to when we want to know who said what and when, and what happened as a result. They should be neutral, and trustworthy. The role of newspapers should be to record history as it happens.