Stephan:   This is where we are on the trend away from paper media, and traditional newspaper and magazine news aggregators. This phase is not ultimately sustainable. It is ethically out of balance, and economically problematic. My view of this trend is that the new media are, in the process of their continuing evolution, going to sort themselves out into two general communities: The fact-based and the 'values' based. It is an extension of the Great Schism. For those who are guided by actual data, media will be sorted out for reliability and insight. Because my personal attitudes, and my reading of the this trend coincided I began SR. It is fact-based, and my editorial observations are always separate. There is no better way to support a trend you believe to be correct than becoming what that trend would have you be. But as with all things human there is a shadow, that is its antipode. This trend's shadow is Willful Ignorance. Ghandi's central teaching was that 'what mattered was the nature of our character.' I didn't begin SR for money; it was and is my service to the compassionate and life-affirming. Corny it may sound, but there it is. The reason I put the 'contribute' link on SR, was explore the point this article makes. I wanted to see whether readers would support it. So far nowhere near what someone would need to live on doing this. Yet SR's readership just keeps going up. That tells me we are in the middle of an emerging phase. The real challenge in a future clodded with digital information is to tell which information is worth attending, and what it is worth to support it. And on the other side will be the shadow, of which Fox News, and FM Talk Radio are the root stock. It gets down to one's personal, and through that one's social capacity to deal with fear. The Great Schism (see SR archives) is driven by the reaction to fear. One side sees opportunity, the other sees loss. We are standing at the threshold of a new paradigm, what will prevail will depend on the choice of individuals -- each of us.