How do you like to be informed...

...I'd be grateful for your views on the following options:

1. News only: Simple factual content from verified sources.

2. News and commentary: The above plus the writers personal views as a clearly distinguished comment on the issue.

3. Retrospective commentary: A longer term view on events rather than daily 'firing from the hip' predictions.

4. Unbridled rant.

1 through 3 only

And if it hasn't been reported in either (i) The New York Times, (ii) The Washington Post or (iii) The Guardian then it probably didn't happen. They don't have to be the first to report it, but if they don't pick it up then I will struggle to believe that the original source was legit.

TBH at 10 o clock, each night, on the telly before a repeat of question of sport. ideally endinv with an uplifting tale of a cat being rescued from a cement mixer or a panda finally conceiving  i think telly news people find it harder to be w**kers.

I don't Fluffy. I will give an online source greater credibility if their stories are regularly picked up by one of those three, but I won't trust a story 100% until it has been picked up.

Mostly one with a smattering of two and three.

Number four is what blogs etc. are for: I see little reason for including it in proper news sources.