[criley2]

How about- and I know this is shocking- we find a balance.

A balance between nothing and tabloid.

We're dangerously close to tabloid currently. Lots of irrelevant articles, lots of speculation and opinion, and the real stories are hidden in the noise.

I still think about 80% of the Snowden articles are worse than useless -- they're actively hiding the 20% of articles that are worthwhile, that we should all be reading.

But hey, I guess diverting our attention to the pointless bits of the story is an effective diversion tactic /conspiracy