The most important thing when a media outlet claims to be fearless and publishing stuff other people don't want you to hear is to figure out what its editorial

The most important thing when a media outlet claims to be fearless and publishing stuff other people don't want you to hear is to figure out what its editorial criteria are. A lot of the time the reason mainstream media 'fears' to publish stuff is because it's total rubbish, after all. Seems like this site's cracked it though. Can't think of any examples where an organization kills or 'disappears' a journalist to try to prevent a story being written and it turns out there's nothing to see or our sympathies should have been with the organization. And as editorial biases go, I'm very comfortable aligning myself with an editorial bias against the sorts of people who kill journalists.