I'm sad to see them go. I think Pando really demonstrates how hard it is to make money in contrarian journalism. Not just investigative journalism, which is ex

I'm sad to see them go. I think Pando really demonstrates how hard it is to make money in contrarian journalism. Not just investigative journalism, which is expensive, but it shows us the danger of going to market with a contrary voice. The real money is media made amplifying corporate press releases and telling people that what they believe is basically correct. I miss the days when alcoholic, misanthropic reporters were the mainstay of newsrooms. They may have been SOBs, but we still need them. We all say that we like to have our assumptions challenged, and many actually do, but it seems too few are willing to actually pay for it.