I don't know if the goal of this thread is to discuss this particular RFS, but it's one that I've thought about frequently in the recent past. To me, it seems

I don't know if the goal of this thread is to discuss this particular RFS, but it's one that I've thought about frequently in the recent past. To me, it seems like anything wanting to hit "google-levels" of success in the news sector has to be more than profitable - it has to solve one or more current flaws in the news-media. Approaching this problem and building a better media mousetrap would seem to require at least some thought as to what those flaws are, which appears to be (wisely, IMHO) left as an exercise to the implementers.