AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

I am unconvinced that any source is worth paying attention to full-time. I live in an age of aggregation; my experiences with Reddit demonstrated pretty succinctly that most major news sources are simply aggregating and curating what they're picking up on social media. The good ones will roll a truck and provide some actual investigative journalism, but generally not before a few days have passed.

At that point they aren't aggregating, they're curating, and some curation is better than others. Everyone has a bias, everyone has strengths, everyone has weaknesses. There is so little primary reporting any more that contextualization becomes the role of any journalism bureau.

I have also surmised that journalism is in a dark period at the moment where everyone is struggling for survival. That struggle does not benefit reportage. As such, any single point suffers the slings and arrows of collapsing budgets, employee layoffs, bureau dissolution and the need to pay the bills through listicles and "featured content." Things may get better but they won't get better soon.

Long story short: I subscribe to The Week and I check The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet every morning. If I want to know more, I dig deeper. If DBCS has nothing, I know it's a slow day.