Guess I do have an opinion when.....my paid jobs as a librarian, include teaching information literacy: How to do thorough investigative research from...sources that are verifiable, can be authenticated and cited several years from now..without disappearing off from Internet cyberspace. Part of the jobs, include teaching people some good information sources and techniques to update/append base info. I was asked recently in a job interview on my opinion on information literacy instruction for the next generation of students. Maybe we should just generalize to everyone.

Yseful information sources aren't just on the free Internet. Some of your in-depth thoughtful articles...are hidden....for fee via the Internet meaty research..or in a book or fee-based magazine that you buy or borrow. Still being published in hard copy only.

Or are Obama's memoirs for free full-text now in the Internet?

YouTube..is just fleeting, short snippets. Hardly enough analysis, thought and accurate MEMORY by the viewer, is allowed. Great for self-promos or anti-whatever messages.

I'm sure all of us have known people who have been interviewed for tv and radio extensively or not.. and the final aired message is horribly whittled down...to just a snippet of reality, however distorted.

Several people here have mentioned journalists as tended to be "liberal". Really? It's whoever pays their salaries, they will write to..survive on the payroll. HOWEVER, the training of journalist does shape them professionally to want to exercise freedom of speech. We have to remember that the same "liberal" journalists in some countries have been jailed, hurt or lost their careers for speaking the truth.

I better dig up that article in MORE magazine, where a national female tv journalist lost her high paying job, due to her "opinon" to speak out.