[greatingale]

> No one says to themselves "That looks like a good story, but I'll just wait a few days and read about it in the New York Times."

I absolutely do. NYT isn't perfect, but all my other feeds are so full of junk I do wait to see what the NYT will write about it. You don't even have to wait a few days. The NYT is very good at covering developing stories online with reasonable accuracy.