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Personalized News

 A newspaper that caters to *your* opinions
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Face it, you’ve never read an opinion column that convinced you to change your mind on some significant issue. So why the aggravation? Just like all those Internet portals that can be configured for your preferences (crazy as they may be), have a newspaper (online or otherwise) that entirely caters to your twisted opinions on world events. Likewise the business section will only contain those financial pundits who think that the stocks in your portfolio will go up. It’s all random anyways, so why not have a smug feeling that the “experts” vindicate you. Sure, this flies in the face of everything journalism stands for, but then again, the networks have been saying whatever will bring them higher ratings for years.

P.S Feel free to fishbone this one at will. Make Cronkite proud.

—imho, Jul 03 2003

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Baked! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/
[snarfyguy, Oct 04 2004]

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       It is my opinion that all that is wrong in this world is giant peanut butter / penguin conspiracy. I hope that someone writes a newspaper that entirely caters to my opinions! (squalking in background)...Dammit, they're at it again! Fly! Fly stupid birds!
—Cedar Park, Jul 03 2003
   

       There are examples of personalized news sites already out there. Findory News (http://findory.com) is one. As you read articles, it pays attention and favors articles that appear to match your interests. However, it does show at least some articles that disagree with your views, so it doesn't have the property of only reinforcing "your twisted opinions on world events."
—glinden, Jan 18 2004
   

       [El Dorado Jr] Make the world sweat. Tell them we'll only read stories about them if we can vote electronically on their issue at the end of the article.
—mensmaximus, Dec 10 2004
   
      
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