Oppos­ing Views is a new inter­net debate web­site that is dif­fer­ent from other debate web­sites. Oppos­ing Views has “experts” instead of aver­age cit­i­zens debat­ing the impor­tant issues of the day. From the Oppos­ing Views “About Us” page:

Oppos­ing Views helps you uncover all sides of the issues you care about most. Here at www.opposingviews.com, experts go head-to-head on real-life con­cerns, debat­ing news and events, address­ing the ques­tions that keep you up at night. We intro­duce the ques­tions, the experts present their cases (and dis­agree with each other), and you leave ready to make well-informed deci­sions and take action.

Each sec­tion of www.opposingviews.com is a chan­nel, includ­ing pol­i­tics, soci­ety, health, money, and reli­gion. Our point/counter-point for­mat gives each expert a chance to state their infor­ma­tion and opin­ions on an issue. Mean­while, the other side objects by call­ing out the flaws in that infor­ma­tion, and then states their own side. Oppos­ing Views brings together the infor­ma­tion on the issue, the evi­dence on each side and their counter-points.

The hun­dreds of known and cred­i­ble experts, opin­ion lead­ers and advo­cate groups include: the Obama Cam­paign, the McCain cam­paign, the National Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion (NRA), Peo­ple for the Eth­i­cal Treat­ment of Ani­mals (PETA), The Sierra Club and Amnesty Inter­na­tional, as well as indi­vid­u­als who are author­i­ties on issues of cur­rent con­sumer inter­est. Col­lec­tively, these part­ner orga­ni­za­tions already have been cited as author­i­ties on their topics.

TechCrunch and Mash­able have infor­ma­tion about the com­pany and the launch of the website.

I still have not seen a web­site that allow does a good job of graph­i­cally rep­re­sent­ing the point and coun­ter­point nature of debate.