On the positive trend for hard news...

At long last, something that makes sense is finally making it to the news. I'm talking about the NYTimes article that shows divergent trend of CBS, NBC, and ABC in bucking the trend to follow hard news stories of their own, rather than everyone reporting on the same topic, and see who gets the more sensational headlines or soundbites.

It's a welcome and much pleasant surprise, given how hyped-up the whole notion of social networking is, and how so many journals seem to be following the herd mentality, to think that there's no place for hard news now, but to crowdsource what 1-minute soundbite the crowds would like to hear, contributing much to the decline in the quality of hard news and original reporting.

Finally, finally, someone is waking up to it, and realize that there's so much idiocy false/half truth in the crowd that it's not always wise to just kiss up to what the crowds want, but to follow your journalistic hearts to provide in-depth, original reporting that I crave so much these days.