Sounds kind of like the "If a tree fell in forest..." argument. Ever hear the expression "That's news to me!"... well in the ultimate personalized web world of the future I'd like to think that if a story is only relevant to me, then (from my perspective) it's still news to me. As far as the press capitulating to the powers that be (even unwittingly/subconsciously) there's a great book by Noam Chomsky called Manufacturing Consent that sheds a lot of blinding light on the so-called free press... great read! - Fred Davis