OK, intellectual weight is basically a meaningless word. One thing I was trying to indicate was page length. Hacker News could use more really long articles, ge

OK, intellectual weight is basically a meaningless word. One thing I was trying to indicate was page length. Hacker News could use more really long articles, generally they are higher quality. I think the New Yorker is a well-written, basically authoritative source with regards to journalism. See their excellent article that makes a complete case that Cameron Todd Willingham was an innocent man executed by the USA. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_... Are there any New Yorker journalism articles that lack sufficient weight to be considered correct? I'm not talking about their movie reviews. What makes this article Hacker News material is that while discussing a mainstream, inflammatory, emotional topic, it is much closer to the truth than anything you are likely to hear on the TV news. Finally, if people have strong opinions, they should be allowed to express them. Maybe we'll all learn something. The downmodding and moderation system mostly works here.