> To put even a slightly finer point on it -- isn't this, in a sense, journalism without a filter? I don't think it's journalism if it doesn't have a filter.

> To put even a slightly finer point on it -- isn't this, in a sense, journalism without a filter? I don't think it's journalism if it doesn't have a filter. IMHO, the job of journalists is to filter through a bunch of garbage to produce something that's succinct, informative, and as truthful as possible (given the constraints). Publishing a stream of raw garbage is not that.