Lately, I've grown used to terrible news sources, especially cable news but also newspapers.  Seriously, ever looked at the Houston Chronicle's editorials?  But lately the Houston Press has been doing this kick-ass new thing I've never seen before.  Get this, they're using their resources to do a long, in-depth investigation into areas of society that most people don't know about, and then 'report' back to the viewers.  I think they call it 'journalism', but don't quote me on that. 

This article in particular, while old, is a great example.  I can't think of any article in a real newspaper that comes close to being as informative.  It's a bit long for work reading, so save it for your lunch break or evening reading.

Perhaps if places like the Washington Post would spend less time whining about blogs and more time doing actual reporting, they would find themselves in a position of providing a service that not every retard with a Typepad account could do just as well.  I was going to link a delightful ABC news article that spent four solid pages actively misleading its readers about marginal tax rates.  Unfortunately, the many blogs that savaged it got there before I could, and it's been sort of corrected.  It was absolutely glorious in its idiocy, I recommend the second link (The New Republic) for a pithy takedown.