Best Thread Ever

Wow, this thread on metafilter may be the best thread ever. Some very nice comments include Quonsar’s, which I think has a very nice cadence. rcade’s is manifesto material.

The world doesn’t need to wait around for professional journalists to carefully predigest the news for us any more. We’re capable of collecting and analyzing information from a thousand different sources and directions, even an injudicious e-mail by a chatty Pulitzer Prize winner to at least one loose-lipped friend.