It's no mystery that many people take their choice of news source pretty seriously, often involving the level of loyalty and the resulting hostility more often associated with sports fans. This generally boils down to politics. A persons party affiliation will often steer them toward a specific website or news station, like Fox News or Common Dreams depending on where they feel they stand.
The new web service and iPhone app, Newsy, hopes to mitigate this problem by collating various sources reporting on the same subject into a single video with highlights narrated by Newsy's journalists. The aim is to offer news buffs a more rounded, global perspective that they would otherwise not likely have if they relied solely on one source for their news.
Newsy also hopes to makes the hundreds and even thousands or similar articles on a single subject online a little more manageable to sift through by taking on the "legwork" for you.
As of the time the article was written Newsy was solely limited to the condensing of multiple news sources into a convenient package but with no system of rating, fact checking, or analyzing. While this would certainly bolster the content of the site, the absense of these features are likely a peacekeeping effort in order to avoid riling up the news organizations used.
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