As a journalist, I agree that many of the problems he points out are endemic, although I'd go farther to say they typify almost all news. I liked the approach

As a journalist, I agree that many of the problems he points out are endemic, although I'd go farther to say they typify almost all news. I liked the approach that http://scienceblogs.com/ http://scienceblogs.com/, though apparently they've had some harsh times lately: Let the sources go direct, not in a one-off "news announcement" that is really an arbitrary point in a multi-year evolution of understanding, but rather as an ongoing conversation about what they're studying, what they're discovering, and what they think is worth sharing.