I did try to do a more format focused and news aggregation thing years ago on steemit. I did it under my @newsagg account.
I did a daily news aggregation and I tried to provide left, right, center, and steemit sections so that you could get a lot of the headlines from the day from different points of view.
I had a template I used and it was formatted with some more work in it. I also used a lot of Ben Garrison art in the title images with the permission of his wife and him.
Here is the last post I did in that format:
https://peakd.com/informationwar/@newsagg/headlines-jumbo-sized-thursday-february-14th-2019-ocasio-cortez-revealed-the-big-communist-socialist-marxist-plan-too-soon-two
EDIT: I had a template so I could do one of these in 1 to 2 hours daily. I was doing it because I already would be looking at many news sites daily to do what I kind of described as trying to triangulate the truth. Since I was doing already I thought I might as well turn it into a post. Yet making those posts daily took a lot of time and when I made $0.44 off of them it eventually became not worth that extra time it took me to make them. I'd spend 30-40 minutes looking at news as opposed to the 1 to 2 hours.
That's a very cool idea! "News from many views!" It'd be cool to get perspectives from left, center, and right. Very bright of you to have a template to speed up creation.
If something doesn't feel worth it to you, it makes sense to move on to something that does. 🙏
It also was a "soul suck" to produce that. I identified through more than a year of doing that every day some sites I was ONLY going to so I could present all views. I came to truly despise slate.com and talkingpointsmemo.com but I still visited them and read their articles each day.
When I stopped the aggregation I stopped visiting those two sites. That doesn't mean I don't still look at left leaning sites, just not those two. Also in the year+ of doing that I can assure you that the legacy media is very heavily weighted left. Since I still pay attention to legacy media some I am still getting hammered by it from there.
I did try not to be biased on those posts, but I am human so of course I failed sometimes.
I know some people liked the posts. The account did okay but it was not popular enough to justify the amount of time it required.
I respect the effort you put into it, and I'm also glad you stopped doing something that was a "soul suck."
I tend to have a knack for spotting biases, so I do my best to navigate what's out there as best I can, but like yourself, I'm human and fail from time to time. :)
I was pretty good at it but when you do it every day of the week and you see it day after day we all have bad days. It definitely could be tough to stomach some days on top of whatever life was throwing my way for the day.
It was valuable. I kind of hoped someone would pick up where I left off as being able to go one place that aggregated some of the top topics from different perspectives to me was valuable and could potentially save people a lot of time.
Yeah, I could see that happening, kudos to you for wading through it in order to create value for others. I believe https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news tries to do something similar?
Interesting... I wonder when they came into existence.
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