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Great comments. What we were taught back in journalism school was that reporters and editors were the “gatekeepers” of knowledge, and it was their decisions about what to publish and what not to publish which determined “the public interest.”

See this pertinent quote which I think is applicable. Carr is a NY Times columnist.

"I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed"

David Carr (b. 1956), US Journalist. CNN "Reliable Sources", Sunday, August 10, 2008.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Unless things have changed a lot lately, the Democrat is one of the most conservative papers in Florida these days. Very interested in the rumour he referenced that the Tampa Tribune is going to follow the Christian Science Monitor by ceasing to have a printed version.