News is not art. Or more accurately, art is not news. Sure, there's value in many things on the spectrum from trashy celebrity gossip to ground-breaking scienti

News is not art. Or more accurately, art is not news. Sure, there's value in many things on the spectrum from trashy celebrity gossip to ground-breaking scientific reporting to reality television and music videos and much more - not all of it is news. In art, wine, whisky, software, many areas it's fine to argue whether quality or popularity is king ($20 blended vs. 30yo single malt, beautiful code vs. news.arc), but not in news. There's good news and there's crappy news, and sadly it seems crappy news is the more popular, but that doesn't mean it's better. It may generally be a snobby view to take, but I think I'm reasonably unbiased in that I light trashy celebrity gossip and shit entertainment forms as much as anyone. Side note: Sorkin's The Newsroom tackles the debate of quality vs. ratings when it comes to televised news. It's an absolutely fantastic show (at least it is if, like me, you share the creator's left-leaning politics, I've no idea if people with differing views would necessarily enjoy it as much as I do.)