I think that given that we don't know who will even get asked, the best hope for the question is to be thought-provoking in itself. Maybe it can sow the odd seed.
However, it occurs to me to wonder if there might not be a niche for this sort of a service after all. As the trad news outlets wither over the coming years they will be forced to shed whatever fact-base skills they still have. It might just be worthwhile for a trad news outlet to source factual stuff to a knowledge aggregator like ET if it would make their product more readable/watchable than the competition's. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
But they're too clueless to notice. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
