I understand your concern, but there's a key difference between reddit and HN: one is general news the other--hacker news. So you should really be comparing re

I understand your concern, but there's a key difference between reddit and HN: one is general news the other--hacker news. So you should really be comparing reddit to CNN or other mainstream news organizations. In that sense, I think reddit is still a better source, even if it is very biased. My initial point was: we shouldn't call a particular story redditlike as a catch-all Bad Thing(tm).