Rant mode on:<p>If the last few years of really paying attention has taught me one thing, it&#x27;s that honest-to-god journalism, as in checking facts, vetting sources, and reporting stories as objectively as possible is dead. <i>Completely and totally dead</i>. Most people taking up that title flatly do not deserve it.<p>Finding out what actual people are doing and what&#x27;s happening in situations like Ferguson and the Arab Spring is a lot more important than some self-important agenda pusher&#x27;s view on it. Journalism has failed the people it&#x27;s supposed to serve, so now it&#x27;s on the people to sort the information and come to their own conclusions.<p>It&#x27;s not like the vox populi could do much worse than the mainstream media...