I few months ago, I discovered what I thought was a really cool new newsmagazine site called Quartz at qz.com. At first I was drawn in by the cool design, interesting tech articles etc so I decided to subscribe in order to keep up with the site. They had a “daily brief” which summarized all of the top stories in various categories. I thought it was pretty cool.

So I started reading the emails as they came in – interesting enough – but they all have that same slant which has wrecked journalism: the authors political beliefs slant the articles. At first it wasn’t so bad – I was able to read past the cringe worthy political talk. But at some point they stopped reporting facts and started reporting opinion as fact, that’s when they lost me. As with most, if not all journalism nowadays, the writers opinion colored the analysis. Worst of all, they didn’t even try to be balanced, they seemed to take pride in the fact that they were feeding you propaganda. I suppose that maybe they believe it themselves, but as a real journalism, your job is not to convince me that your opinion is right.

True journalism means “we report, you decide”. Now it means “we tell you only what you need to know to make a decision which mimics my opinion” – There is very little factual reporting of anything which is true. When was the last time you ever read anything in any kind of media, yes even blogs, which is real? True journalism is dead: we can’t get the truth from anyone anymore.

Or can we? When you look at the events unfolding in Egypt, Greece and other hotspots around the world, who is the most reliable source of the truth? People on the ground, emitting raw, unedited reports from the scene. If you ask me, Twitter, Facebook & YouTube have become the new source of truth. True journalism comes directly from individuals experiencing events as they occur.

But still, there is no solution which properly distills the huge hosepipe of information into anything truly useful – most of the time “journalists” pick and choose the tweets they’d like to feature in their articles and once again, color the news to their political beliefs.

Sounds to me that there is a startup idea here: how can we properly analyze and process the hosepipe of data in real time to provide stream of pure journalism, direct from the crowd to you. Something that side steps the editors and the writers so desperate to change your mind instead of give you the facts, and feeds the truth directly to you. A news and mobile site which specifically does not bring you the news from news sites, but from real people, in real places, in real time.