Over an awful lot of news the press are simply packagers. look at any paper & see how much is rewritten press releases &/or political briefings.

On the traditional definition that “news” is something that somebody powerful doesn’t want known you will get more news & more informative background in good blogs than in anything but the best bits of the best papers. Only in the blogsphere will you hear the inconvenient truths about global warming, libertarian economics, Yugoslavia, fakecharities, Obama’s background, immigration, race, anything requiring you to be able to count, radiation hormesis, racial crime, Bilderberg etc.