News?

What is going to be the future of the media.

At present we have it seems a fixed number of stories from a fairly fixed number of established companies that dominate the news for a fixed cycle until they are either not news worthy or the event/issue goes away.

We can then add to that the incredibly low standards of much reporting, often based on hearsay and rumour where each agency or media outlet scrambles to beat their rivals to the scoop (US news outlets the worst offenders, compounded by Facebook and Twitter which are used increasingly for tracking the trending and breaking news.

What hope is there then? How can we better use the current media or do we need a revolution in the way that new is presented?

What would it look like if instead of experts and commentators passing on their views we were merely presented with the facts?