"…professional fact checkers, who traditionally worked at magazines, are being laid off. As a result, it appears as though the future of fact checking is in open, public and participatory systems and organizations, rather than the closed, professional systems traditionally used by large magazines. The Internet has made this shift possible."

Well, here's Choire Sicha's inelegant but pointed response:
"You talk to people, these small online startups, as Len Downie and I did, the optimism is absolutely infectious. Even journalists who have left or been fired from or been let go from traditional mainstream organizations now are working at lower wages for some of these organizations and they are grinning ear to ear." —Michael Schudson, academic sociologist and faculty member of the Journalism School at Columbia University, in an interview conducted at Yale, as quoted on media's unhappy pallbearer Jim Romenesko. Well!

DO YOU SEE ME GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR, YOU DOCTORATE-HAVING, TENURE-LOVING, SUIT-WEARING, PONZI-SCHEME-ENDORSING, CHEERLEADER FOR THE DEATH OF THE UNION AND THE PENSION? YOU AND YOUR PAL LEN DOWNIE ARE LIVING IN A HILARIOUS FANTASY-LAND OF FANTASIES AND MAGIC.