Comment by bilsbie
4 years ago
I’d say to question those assumptions. Open source software exists but the congenital wisdom that engineers would never do work for free.
You’d be surprised what people will volunteer for. Some people are already attending those things and perhaps they’d be willing to report back.
It's a lot harder to get unbiased news if you solely rely on volunteers.
Can you imagine getting your news from a version of Richard Stallman.
I do in fact read his RSS feed from time to time...
There is no such thing as "unbiased" and there is nothing wrong with biased news as long as the reader is aware of the bias.
There is nothing wrong about biased news if there is a variety of biases available. I think for local news the risk is very high that a small group of volunteers can capture almost all reporting and push only their biases.