In my opinion, being a person who tries very, very hard to read both sides of everything to form my own intellectual model (it's a bug, not a feature), NO. One does not exist. YET.
Editorial independence in the current US environment is simply not possible using traditional models. Disruption has been taking place, but it's not all constructive. Bezos buying the Washington Post was one marker, and Thiel helping destroy garbage Gawker is at the other end of the spectrum. Hanging in the balance are tens of millions of people trying to find the truth.
Honestly, the only website I can mention in confidence is Medium, and it still suffers from signal-to-noise ratio and present models of information / emotion distribution.
This can be changed, but it will take somebody planting a flag so far out on the scale of TRUTH like Hunter S. Thompson railing against Richard Nixon and in spite of his own significant issues. The dialogue has changed, the methods have changed, and they have surpassed our adaptation capability timing in my opinion.
There is an opportunity for Journalists and Writers in the United States to re-ignite the fire that the First Amendment was designed to protect. It's the natural order of things, we're witnessing evolution, and also participating in it. I have hope that one day a team can come together to build on what ProPublica and The Intercept aimed to achieve, but do it in a fashion like Kurt Cobain when Nirvana's songs and messages suddenly turned people's attention from junk-food-Hair-Metal toward something worth giving thought.
Editorial independence in the current US environment is simply not possible using traditional models. Disruption has been taking place, but it's not all constructive. Bezos buying the Washington Post was one marker, and Thiel helping destroy garbage Gawker is at the other end of the spectrum. Hanging in the balance are tens of millions of people trying to find the truth.
Honestly, the only website I can mention in confidence is Medium, and it still suffers from signal-to-noise ratio and present models of information / emotion distribution.
This can be changed, but it will take somebody planting a flag so far out on the scale of TRUTH like Hunter S. Thompson railing against Richard Nixon and in spite of his own significant issues. The dialogue has changed, the methods have changed, and they have surpassed our adaptation capability timing in my opinion.
There is an opportunity for Journalists and Writers in the United States to re-ignite the fire that the First Amendment was designed to protect. It's the natural order of things, we're witnessing evolution, and also participating in it. I have hope that one day a team can come together to build on what ProPublica and The Intercept aimed to achieve, but do it in a fashion like Kurt Cobain when Nirvana's songs and messages suddenly turned people's attention from junk-food-Hair-Metal toward something worth giving thought.
I'm optimistic.