We have been running an experiment here at LateBreakingNews.com, where we showed the late-breaking news feeds of all the major news media - but we filtered out almost every story that mentioned words like 'Trump', 'Potus', and a few similar.  We also blocked news reports that mentioned a few other highly-charged words like 'Hillary' and 'Breitbart'.

There was still a lot of news, and it looked more like the news used to look; more factual, more about a wide-range of events.

Our hypothesis was that Trump supporters would be less interested in our webiste, and Trump critics would be more interested; but what we found, was that everyone was less interested!

Apparently everyone wants to see news about Trump.  Love him or hate him, Conservative or Liberal, it seems that people just love news about Donalt Triump.  Its kind of like the irrestible urge to look at a car crash; no one wants someone else to crash but if it happens, we just cannot avoid looking.  This political rubber-neck has reached new heights in the Trump era, but has always existed.
 
Our site has been redone, it is all standard news sources.  We have put in a lot of links for media bias checking, and easy ways to get right to the late-breaking news feeds of all the major news media.  We would love to hear any feedback you have, please contact us with your comments and ideas!  Our site is to bring together all the major news media; and to find different ways of presenting the most recent, late-breaking news - so if you have ideas for improving that, we want to hear.

Politifact is an independent organization.   They have analyzed all of the major news media,​and released figures on which ones are more accurate and factual.  It turns out, probably to no ones surprise, that Fox News and MSNBC are the least accurate.  
Fox News is in last place, and MSNBC 2nd to last.

 
​We all understand the pressure to get ratings.  But in the long run, you will have higher ratings when you offer a quality product.  News organizations that focus on sensationalism, excessive violence, or are overly political are hurting their long term viability.  They are misinforming viewers, and this is not a service; it is a disservice.  The web is so connected now, it is fairly easy to find ways to do fact checking; people need to make this effort.

You can read the Politifact story here.

There is also a very interesting article in Wikipedia about the history of Fox News Controversies.  For example we have all heard Fox News anchors pronouncing Barack Obama's last name as 'Osama'.  This kind of innuendo is childish, unprofessional, and almost everyone sees through it.

We are publishing this blog post because many media outlets reported on the Politifact study mentioning only Fox News (which is Conservative), or mentioning only MSNBC (which is Liberal), depending on their political position.  We are totally independent, and therefore wanted a headline that was more accurate.
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We believe that there is still room for innovation in news, in particular with "late breaking" news.  The advent of Twitter is the start of what is possible - not the end.  Yet all major news media are doing the same basic thing - they tweet, and tweet, and tweet - just like everyone else.

Making more effective use of all those smartphones out there is a key element.  Its not enough to passively wait for people to send you stories; the Crowd can help us in many other ways.  People are seeing things, hearing things, talking about things...  these are resources that have not yet been fully utilized.  No news media company has yet made full use of the crowd.  It is a vast, untapped resource just waiting to be more fully utilized.

Technology is the key driver of all this.   We need to make a more effective use of technology, for real-time collection, summary, and broadcast of news.  Technology also enables machine-translation in real time, making if possible for someone in any part of the world to have the same, equal access to late breaking news.  Not one news media company has committed to a truly universal news resource, regardless of your natural language.

We have all gotten a little spoiled by the easy access to information, using search engines.  The problem is that there is no verification of facts on the web.  When you search, there is no way to know  that what you are seeing, is accurate - or even the current information.   For example when following a natural disaster, it can be vitally important to have the latest information and not something that might be outdated - and affect decisions adversely.  The real issue is that there is no global tracking system for news.  What we need is a 'token' or 'news bar code' that followed a story.  Whomever breaks a story first, would register it with some kind of global news repository.  From then on, anyone can report on that news story and the story would be tracked by its own, unique identifier.  This when would enable much better tools to see the story as it evolves.  This would reduce duplicate reporting, and would enable future historians a much better way to study the past.  A news-tracking system would be of great use to future historians (and students).  Yet, no media company has yet created any kind of definitive, global news-tracking system. 

The challenge is on for news media companies to be more innovative, to create structures for tracking and archival that will stand the test of time, and for someone to truly give us accurate, late breaking news.   The major news media can solve this now, or wait for some startup to appear and add even more competition in news.