[BNM] just the facts

[Josh Crawford]

It's a nice idea but I think you'd find there are disagreements on
some of the official stats between different countries.  Just think is
a country like North Korea going to let the world in on any of their
private matters?

In the news http://news.stamen.com/2005-08-01.html might be something
leaning towards your vision.  It's a visualisation based on Google
News.



On 8/2/06, joe aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
> I like the idea, but it seems a little naive to imagine that people can
> extract facts from emotive subjects in such a way...
>
> joe
>
>
> richard willis wrote:
>
> >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'.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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