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