News and Nonsense

With the huge increase in accessibility to information, reliable or not, how do we sift through the mess to find the real hard "news"? What does it mean to be considered news or journalism? I find that journalism and news are best described as the complete dedication to examining fact, spreading truth to the masses, embracing that important right, the right to information and freedom of speech. I define news as the truths and facts, thoroughly investigated and proven. Journalism, however, I see as the art of taking that news and conveying it to an audience, educating and informing while retaining the freedom to discover and analyze. The journalist should act as a gateway between fact, reason, and the public.