"While newspapers were the most common source of information, they accounted for just 123 out of 628 total original information sources, or just shy of 20 percent. And a huge chunk of that, up to half, came from links in the Abbreviated Pundit Roundup, which is specifically designed to track what some of the nation's top pundits are yammering about. In the unlikely and tragic event that every single newspaper went out of business today, we'd have little problem replacing them as a source of information. Even most of the pundits we're following would stick around somewhere or other. It's not as if Paul Krugman's fate is intertwined in any way with the NY Times'."

Now here's a thought:
"Perhaps all funds given to investigative projects should include not only the production of the journalism, but also support the dissemination of the reporting to a larger audience as well as to audiences potentially impacted by the reporter's findings. If Woodward and Bernstein had been reporting for the Kansas City Star instead of the Washington Post, would their reporting into Watergate been any less important?"

"The bottom line is this: If we had this type of coverage for the truly massive citizen actions after the 2000 election, during the run-up to the Iraq War and during the 2004 RNC, we probably would have never had to endure two terms of Bush/Cheney rule and be in this mess we are currently in."

Exactly.