[BNM] just the facts

[richard willis]

last night i imagined a news site where there were no stories, no comment,
just facts and a limited amount of explanatory text. for instance, let's
take israel/hisbollah:

i want just the unadulterated facts about the war AND its relationship to
other current wars and other facts. so...

say, a page showing a map of the world with ALL the global, known, current
conflicts shown on it as clickable areas. select a 'war' to get more
details about that particular conflict, but as much as possible, pure
facts. so: length of war, number of dead/dying/wounded, size of military,
buildings destroyed, land taken/lost, populations involved, GDP etc. etc.
with text being limited to some short, purely objective terms such as
given reason for the conflict (both sides), known allies, religion of
combattants etc.

then give options for users to compare facts that they choose to compare.
for instance, the amount of people that died in belgian hospitals today
cross-referenced against the amount of congolese soldiers lost in combat
today and so on and so forth.

no journalists on the site but perhaps wikis/blogs so that everyone can
raise/comment on new/existing issues, allowing news 'stories' to be as
diverse as your standard 'should israel call a ceasefire?' to the less
widely reported 'more people die on roads in britain daily than ever did
at chernobyl' and beyond.

does anything like this exist? cos if it did it'd be no more
bbc/sky/cbn/reuters for me, no way. if it did, maybe i could actually see
'the news' for once as opposed to 'the filtered bias'.