plumsauce - 9:38 pm on Aug 9, 2009 (gmt 0)

One less source of information is one less root for a healthy internet.

A healthy internet requires funding. Especially in the current environment of bandwidth heavy consumption. Usenet may be just as heavy in hardware requirements, but much lighter in bandwidth consumption.

I also suggest that avoiding bias in news requires that the funding be free from advertiser influence.