nothing in "investigative reporting, commentary, criticism, and provocative personal essays" is, what I consider news. q.e.d. vox.com: "Vox explains the news."

nothing in "investigative reporting, commentary, criticism, and provocative personal essays" is, what I consider news. q.e.d. vox.com: "Vox explains the news.". No shroud of being objective here either. q.e.d. slate.com: "we are a general-interest publication offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, business, technology, and culture" general interest is vague, but no non-commented news here either, q.e.d. the root has a category "news", but if you visit their main page you see, it's just a sort of "community news-ticker" (like any political page has) and I don't see them making claims to universality. Compare that to Breitbart mingling everything there is into their political agend and explicitly stating: "truthful reporting", ... , "Breitbart News is one of America’s leading news organizations." leaves the huffpost which is laughable by design.