Hello, world: this is WikiTribune
I can see real potential here. I think one of the biggest problems today is news presented from a given perspective that is insensitive to other perpectives. What I mean by this is cases where people who have another perspective perceive the news story as being factual inaccurate. In the US, this results in two groups who both think the other group is unintelligent and crazy. And it results in the two sides isolating themselves. There is no common ground from which to talk. I am hoping there is a way to get around this.<p>Another commenter made the point that people don't percieve unbiased news as unbiased. They usually perceive news that agrees with there opinion as unbaised. So it is not enough to simply be unbiased. You have to be percieved as unbiased by the different sides.<p>I think this may be possible in a setting like wikitribune, if respected people from the different sides work together on a story (I'm allowing for limiting the contributors). When this happens they are forced to speak a language the other side can understand. And I think the general public, or at least some bi/multi partison segment of it, will believe in it, because it is coming in part from voices they respect.<p>I'm not sure if this exactly how they plan on operating, but this is what I am hoping for.