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I would love to subscribe to a news outlet that did nothing but put popular stories under the microscope, fact-checking and even putting an uncertainty value of

I would love to subscribe to a news outlet that did nothing but put popular stories under the microscope, fact-checking and even putting an uncertainty value of various facts - not just presenting them in black and white, and then putting the story into a larger context. e.g. here are the facts for this plane crash, but here are how many of this class of plane crash per year in the last x years, etc... There would be lag, but maybe if they timed things right, they could be able to hit the final downslope of a story, becoming the best & last word.

vitd 12y ago
NPR's "On The Media" has been doing this for decades. They have a podcast you can subscribe to for free. It's an hour each week and usually dissects the weeks news stories, often pointing out when the stories were completely wrong. You can find the podcast on iTunes or wherever you get podcasts from.
- digikata 12y ago
  That sounds very interesting, I'll have to give that podcast a spin. Though I do wonder if it sounds too much about the process of the media, instead of a recalibration of the stories themselves. And I also worry about already getting too much of my news from NPR sources.