Does it matter? A good chunk of the blog posts that make it to Hacker News involve extensive research, interviews or data processing. Of course, when you're not

Does it matter? A good chunk of the blog posts that make it to Hacker News involve extensive research, interviews or data processing. Of course, when you're not being paid, you have less of an incentive to dig deep so I get your point, but there's people who do it, and you only need a small amount of people to satisfy the demand for high-quality journalism. There's only so much you can read in a day: 3-10 stories for most people.