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!

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.

Nice!

I like how at first it just shows the headlines/articles. Then, if you want, you can toggle the "show bias" switch.

Have you thought about an option to gamifying it a little bit by letting the user guess which direction the headline leans? And then revealing the direction and the news source.

For example, when the "enable bias guessing" switch is toggled, there's a slider that appears on the bottom of the headline. Or, simpler, just two buttons that say left, right. You can guess all of the headlines on the whole page, then reveal and see how you did.

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!

Please see https://bifocalnews.com/about for the reasoning behind the goal of this site before making unproductive criticism

That looks very reasonable. But the HN headline seems very misleading.

Thank you for the feedback, my apologies for the mis-direction. I changed the headline to Democratic News without Hidden Bias

OK, but if I understand correctly what you are trying to do, the word "Democratic" is misleading, because you're not trying to present just one side of the Democrat/Republican divide. You're trying to expose both sides to each other.

BTW, I think this is a really important thing to do, and I wish you every success.

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!