The Onion Beats Investigative Journalism On Google News

Sometimes I actually feel sorry for old media. Blogs are taking all the page views and don't have the massive cost overhead of newspapers and magazines. AOL is gobbling up magazine and other media writers by the hundreds . And today I see this article talking about Google News Spotlight , which focuses on that supposedly last bastion of old media - investigative journalism. The stuff that's "too hard" for blogs to do . But in a world where old media can't keep up with breaking news, presumably longer investigative articles can be their safe place: TechCrunch50 Conference 2009 : September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco