Much of the er social foribuses here are patterned after the Murican paranoid style of extreme VS extreme, with the occasional Gem of an overview or an actual subtle point, IMnsHO. At worst, we are no 'better' than the execrable McLaughlin Group Loud-mouths (with their token Centrist - and she is often shouted down/interrupted almost instantly).

We have a few who occasionally chime in with a balanced presentation which doesn't assume one or the other pole of the exchanges Must be Nutzo (like both Scotts, for example).

In brief, less'n 'we'-all or most were to somewhat change our style of barbed ripostes towards more of what (the ept) journalist tries to do -- I'd say that there are maybe 15 McL kinds of wallows in sloganeering out there in info-land -- for every one which eschews cant regularly.

Of course.. one could posit that a task of merely parsing (say) a Rush performance, or an evening's worth of talking-head prose - with links to demonstrate the dissembling - could provide a needed Public Service\ufffd. But then how do you take on the 'root' issue: the general stupidity of most utterances by and about pols and their ego-gratifying doggerel [??]
(Nobody knows how to kill something so Big, so traditional, and which is also too slimy to grab ahold of, like a fresh trout)

I suspect we lack the discipline to submit lots of our stuff to a reasonableness filter. It's so much more fun to attack the more extreme inferences than root for the modicum of sanity in your average slogan. (Still.. consider the larger audience; 'politics' maybe Is best taken with a certain snidery - accurate analysis is so tedious for the short attention-span majority)

As to the technical.. well Yes: consider the competition (and esp. IW). Were I an underinformed bizness type who wanted some background on Why it is called The Beast - a compilation of all past fora would give enough real meat, refs and explanation to be most useful. Twiki would further elucidate. This, not the socio-political seems our most marketable? accomplishment.

Some of us could also hire out as Prof Shill Detectors and confounders, Billy-Speak translators (esp Andy ;-) and general BS-detectors /disassemblers: a service you'd think that Someone would really want to make use of..

Believe that accomplishing anything in this vein - would need a (at least one) Dedicated-One to organize, do so for the sheer joy of Slaying Popular Falsehoods with a rusty sword with-serrated-edge. Dunno who might have that impetus and tenacity == time available long-term, pretty much unflagging Interest. (In my experience there is always such a One who ends up doing a disproportionate amount of sifting thru garbage and cleaning the can. ie Life is unfair.)

See? THAT's why "The UN sounds like the UN". Daily we see confirmed the wisdom of Ashleigh Brilliant..