Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:

Maybe we should create another sister-project to the wikipedia about current events. I was just thinking about it and there are major problems with usenet news groups and kuro5hin.org, so they are not reliable as a news source. The monopoly-owned mass-media that we depend on are often biased and incomplete, but a wikipedia one would present each point of view as an OPINION, not a FACT. We wouldn't leave out facts like they normally do to create a stronger bias. Wikiwiki would work very well for independant media. What do you think?

I think we should go further still and shoot for the ultimate goal of creating "Wikimedia." That's media with an "m." It would use Wiki-style rules to enable public participation in the creation and editing of all kinds of media: encyclopedias and other reference works, current news, books, fiction, music, video etc. Like current broadcast media, it would have differentiated "channels" and "programs," each with self-selecting audiences. Unlike current media, however, the audience would also be actively involved in creating its own programming, instead of merely passively watching it.