What's increasingly bugging me is reporters who simply write down whatever nonsense some spokesbeing utters and don't ask probing questions, such as, "What duty does Smithfield have to prevent its workers from being arrested by federal authorities?" If this is the current standard of journalism, newspapers and TV stations should just fire their reporters and let people submit the news via a web page.
If they don't start, the market will simply leave them behind. I just use the LSM sources for what few facts they issue and then go in search of the rest of the story, which I generally have to piece together from posts here, info on other blogs, and sometimes a competing news source. Nice of them to decide that, now that there's plenty of competition, they don't have to compete and actually 'work' for a living.