> Getting your information from friends and family is not going to be worse than sourcing it from talking heads in a studio or newspaper editors Of course it i

> Getting your information from friends and family is not going to be worse than sourcing it from talking heads in a studio or newspaper editors Of course it is. Especially these days, your friend is just as likely to have gotten the news they're giving you from a Facebook meme page than from anything with on the record quotes from officials involved. > There are politically interested people in every community to pick up the Slack Yes there are. Journalists! That's what a journalist is. They're interested, they research, they present their findings. If you are reading parliamentary papers and reporting the contents to your friends, you are a journalist. Just deferring to individuals in the community you know is a nice idea but it doesn't cover it. For instance, who was looking into Theranos other than journalists at WSJ? Best I can tell, no one was. Their reporting on the company was invaluable.