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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But yes, looking at it... it looks like they are doing something similar but with a big team which would make it a lot less stressful. :)
They also seem to link to a Perspectives blog. That too is interesting as I had a project idea more than a decade ago that I called Perspectives. I never created it.
I was always wondering what it might be like to have something like a reddit (remember, this was before Steemit existed or hive) where the forum was designed special so that every topic could have different tabs for different perspectives.
I used to give an example of people sharing how history is taught you could have the U.S. tab for the topic, German tab, etc.
So if you were wanting to compare World War II for example and how it is taught you could see the U.S. and other countries perspectives on that side by side. I was suspecting it could be quite enlightening.
You'd apply the same ability to create perspectives for any topic.