See the Ecola and Newslink lists for more Plenty of online literary magazines and many others. My own copy of the Los Angeles Times , NewsPage , Pointcast It gives consumers many more choices, all equally accessible. See Total News , for example, which has direct links to most of the major news sources online. It's interactive with multiple feedback loops.
News sources can write back.
It's the perfect niche medium, adding to the demassification trends in mass media. And there's plenty for kids. It's open to everyone, not just those who consider themselves journalists in the traditional sense. This means the audience has a lot more responsibility to compare sources and critically analyze what they see in the media. The Washington Post has real audio recordings of the Senate hearings on campaign finance, for example.