There really is an alternative - crowd curated news by Virwire - https://virwire.com - bypasses the whole media bias thing with good old wisdom of the crowds. (shameless plug, I'm the developer)
Did a Show HN a few months ago, got very little 'comment' attention but still got a ton of new mobile users who have grown into a solid base. This was the only promotion to date.
Small bootstrapped team, Virwire is PoC of crowd curated news for millennials.
The discovery of Gobekli Tepe was completely random and could just as easily not have happened. Our picture of the post ice age period is tenative at best and easily disrupted by new information. I suspect there are many more sites like this lurking under the soil, especially in this region.
By fostering a larger talent pool competition insures a dynamic long term future, lack of it it often leads to creative stagnation. This is the case in natural systems as well.
Hi everyone, founder here. I made Virwire because I wanted a better/mobile news experience with more relevant content. Virwire monitors tens of thousands of media sources and detects early viral signals based on forum posting, sharing, tweeting, voting, liking and commenting. By socially filtering every article only the best and most relevant stories get through. Enjoy!
Breaking and trending news curation continues to elude much of the the MSM, we created Virwire to solve critical automation and bias issues.