Oh, I would say it&#x27;s a very &quot;journalistic&quot; complaint, unfortunately. Apparently, there is a fair market for that (given the popularity of sites like newyorker.com on HN), but in general what some journalist wants to write is almost opposite to what I want to read. I want to know news, meaning as short and pointed messages as possible, and &quot;no news today&quot; would be actually a good thing. A journalist who thinks he is &quot;good&quot; (note the &quot;graduated from Ivy League&quot; part) wants presence, wants to be someone, a (or, preferably, &quot;the&quot;) trendmaker, the Lord of opinions, like that Spider Jerusalem guy. His ego gets in his way. Which is pretty natural, actually — not only for journalists, but for everyone who wants to be a Person, an Individual, not just a smaller part of the system. Which is actually good, I think, for a human.<p>It might be somewhat working with printed media and specialized news agencies — after all, agency wants something close to what the journalist wants: to have presence, for public to pay attention to them, not to some other agency. &quot;No news today&quot; would be a disaster for them.<p>I mean, it&#x27;s all pretty natural, if we admit that typical news agency&#x27;s goal is not to &quot;give information&quot;. And Facebook&#x27;s &quot;trending news&quot; section&#x27;s goal, on the contrary, is quite close to that.