It offers shades of gray, and it allows users to figure out where their own beliefs and viewpoints fit it. One of the great strengths of online news is that you can expand, you can bring in other viewpoints after the initial story has been posted. Context is crucial to credibility, and I think that context is one area where online news can outperform print and broadcast news. That's not really happening much yet, but I think it might in the future. I base that on my knowledge of how the news is developed at each magazine.
Every publication is a little bit different.
Time and Newsweek have layers of fact-checkers, writers, and editors. I think that one of the main problems with the Net is that so far users are not being educated very well in how to evaluate their information options. On the Net, where everything is just a click away from everything else, you have to be able to shift your perspective and level of skepticism quickly, based on what you're looking at. This is true even on newspaper web sites . All of those subtleties affect how users make judgements about the news they're reading.