justinmiller
Re:Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any ...
on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:23PM (#23265562)
Wow this is very similar to what I just started working on: https://bifocalnews.com
My strategy for picking headlines is to let it happen democratically on Reddit where the bias is explicit in the community rules of the subreddit. I have not yet found a great "center" news source or community.
I really like your news layout and the scrolling headlines at the bottom!
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:29PM (#23194818)
I like the idea of getting user feedback and gamifying the site a bit. It also might be interesting to take the bias guess results and show where on the spectrum of left to right site users think a headline falls. Thanks for the suggestion!
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:10PM (#23193820)
I have been working on https://bifocalnews.com -- a news feed that scrapes political subreddits. This allows for a democracy-driven news feed with explicit bias stated for each article. Started this site for myself after realizing I had nowhere to go to get reliable political perspectives from both sides on popular topics, and I do not like that major news corporations get to choose what is on the front page.
Re:Show HN: Bifocal News – Democracy-Driven News without Hidden Bias
on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:37PM (#23170136)
Ah I see what you mean, I changed Democratic to Democracy-Driven. You are absolutely right that most people would assume the political party. Thank you for the support!
Re:Show HN: Bifocal News – Democracy-Driven News without Hidden Bias
on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:17PM (#23169917)
Thank you for the feedback, my apologies for the mis-direction. I changed the headline to Democratic News without Hidden Bias
Re:Show HN: Bifocal News – Democracy-Driven News without Hidden Bias
on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:19PM (#23169199)
Please see https://bifocalnews.com/about for the reasoning behind the goal of this site before making unproductive criticism