Damn, I got beaten to the "I only read the headline" comment. I did read the article though, and I found it a bit confusing. Assuming it is written in good fai

Damn, I got beaten to the "I only read the headline" comment. I did read the article though, and I found it a bit confusing. Assuming it is written in good faith by a real person, my concern is that the central analogy to open source software does not hold up. Someone who runs OSS after gaining trust through the headline-like "shortcut" verification process that the author describes gains utility through the execution of the software, not through the shortcut verification of it. In contrast, when reading the news, the ideal shortcut form that the author dreams of (i.e. being able to just read the headline) seems to be skipping the primary utility of the content itself. In other words, I don't think reading the news should be about trying to consume as many factoids as possible. Better to read a few good articles than get a one-sentence-deep summary of everything that happened everywhere.