Exactly. Along with the print media, quality of your news is dying. Now any schmuck with a cell phone camera is an “iReporter” on CNN. More and more papers are outsourcing to the Associated Press which often misreports simple facts in their articles. (Think Who, What, When, Where, Why. The basics)
With this apparently much celebrated death of liberal editors and columnists go the moderate, fair, and even conservative newswriters who, believe it or not, actually occupy newsrooms across the country. This is nothing to celebrated.
Who, what, when, where are supposed to be the basics. WHY is only supposed to be added when it is required to clarify the others, not to support an opinion. “Some say” is another usually followed by an opinion.
You know, like the old “AIDS is spreading because of budget cuts” or “homelessness is on the rise due to Republican policies”.