This will be my only post in this thread, and hopefully something everyone will think about.
Not for nothing, but journalism is not and should not ever be about "fresh, fast, and first." A Huge case in point, where journalists got everything wrong the first 2 days of an event: Sandy Hook. most "journalists" in today's world of the 24-hour news cycle have been sacrificing accuracy and integrity for getting the news out first to have the claim that "they were first on the scene to report it." That may well be true, but that doesn't mean that what they reported was correct; hence all the backtracking people have to do, calling those reports under scrutiny.
I'd rather have a site that, if it can be done, be fast, first, and ACCURATE, and if the first two can't be done, make sure we have the right info than not, otherwise you have more rumour, and more noise than signal.
BL.