Rant mode on: If the last few years of really paying attention has taught me one thing, it's that honest-to-god journalism, as in checking facts, vetting sourc

Rant mode on: If the last few years of really paying attention has taught me one thing, it's that honest-to-god journalism, as in checking facts, vetting sources, and reporting stories as objectively as possible is dead. Completely and totally dead. Most people taking up that title flatly do not deserve it. Finding out what actual people are doing and what's happening in situations like Ferguson and the Arab Spring is a lot more important than some self-important agenda pusher's view on it. Journalism has failed the people it's supposed to serve, so now it's on the people to sort the information and come to their own conclusions. It's not like the vox populi could do much worse than the mainstream media...