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justinmiller··on Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website
Wow this is very similar to what I just started working on: https://bifocalnews.com

My strategy for picking headlines is to let it happen democratically on Reddit where the bias is explicit in the community rules of the subreddit. I have not yet found a great "center" news source or community.

I really like your news layout and the scrolling headlines at the bottom!

justinmiller··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
I like the idea of getting user feedback and gamifying the site a bit. It also might be interesting to take the bias guess results and show where on the spectrum of left to right site users think a headline falls. Thanks for the suggestion!
justinmiller··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
I have been working on https://bifocalnews.com -- a news feed that scrapes political subreddits. This allows for a democracy-driven news feed with explicit bias stated for each article. Started this site for myself after realizing I had nowhere to go to get reliable political perspectives from both sides on popular topics, and I do not like that major news corporations get to choose what is on the front page.
justinmiller··on Show HN: Bifocal News – Democracy-Driven News without Hidden Bias
Ah I see what you mean, I changed Democratic to Democracy-Driven. You are absolutely right that most people would assume the political party. Thank you for the support!
justinmiller··on Show HN: Bifocal News – Democracy-Driven News without Hidden Bias
Thank you for the feedback, my apologies for the mis-direction. I changed the headline to Democratic News without Hidden Bias
justinmiller··on Show HN: Bifocal News – Democracy-Driven News without Hidden Bias
Please see https://bifocalnews.com/about for the reasoning behind the goal of this site before making unproductive criticism