[acangiano]

Ninety percent of everything is crap. [1] That's a bad starting point. Add to this the fact that free publications on the web have a strong incentive to maximize their income via ads, and what you get is a crap-fest of sensationalism. Good tech journalism exists, but it's somewhat rare and sorting through the crap to find it is rather fatiguing. It's also unlikely to show up on TechCrunch.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeons_Law

[001sky]

Good tech journalism exists

Are unpaid comments and blog posts, however, not asymptotically approaching/surpassing their quality?

What about signal/noise ratio?

[riffraff]

S/N on comments goes down as soon as the thing becomes popular, am insightful comment is as likely to appear on slashdot, on a wordpress install or on TC, if it's n a popular topic.

And no blogger can reasonably write often enough on an array of subjects wide enough to keep the level of a news site, unless she takes in some other authors, and at that point there is not a lot of difference.

Also, there are still many sites that are widely above 90% of the blogs, such as ARS o the reg.

There are many interesting tech blogs (acangiano's is one :) ) but they don't fill everything that tech journalism should be.