These crises have exposed the inherent weakness in mainstream media

Five years ago, many people said that what was on the Web was just "Internet blather".

Now writers on such sites are starting to win Nobels.

After the crises in energy, finance, etc., it is clear that the major newspapers, magazines, and news sites are basically collections of World Book Encyclopedia articles for high school students.

Oh, sure, their articles are "curated", the information is checked, and the English is mostly correct, but in addition to the out and out distortions, they are simply too limited by space and time. (And the curators of such perfect information accurately foretold what is happening, now, didn't they?)

Specialized websites can take readers through literally thousands of pages and can make arguments about a topic over the course of years. A lot of the reader comments are silly, but about one in twenty says something interesting.

You will have to distinguish what is probably right from what is probably wrong for yourself, but it is the difference between reading an article in a newspaper and then reading the research paper itself.

A particularly clueless proponent of the delusion that "curators" and "experts" somehow ensure that information is correct can be heard at http://radio.seti.org/past-shows.php
in the story "TXT MSG: Behavior", third guest.
Keen's (oh, the irony) ideas seem to be:
1. People are stupid.
2. People gossip and spread stupid, incorrect information.
3. Experts alone get it right.
Wow! 1 and 2 are revelations! That never dawned on me!
3 is just plain wrong... he obviously has never met stupid doctors, professors, economists... I can introduce him to many.
I invite Keen to not waste any more of everyone's time and to go to a library and spend the rest of his life reading curated articles written by experts in the World Book Encyclopedia. It seems high school is about his level. I wonder how fragile must be the self image to be so terrified of error as to confine oneself to mastering the game of tic-tac-toe so that no mistakes are ever made... and to spend existence like that.

The rest of us will stumble forward in the 21st century, toward financial booms and busts, war, First Contact, life extension, genetic engineering, The Singularity, and all the rest of the wonderful mess of life, fully aware that information is provisional, that research papers are full of errors, and that the world is run by idiots who have proven that they don't know what the hell they are doing.

We will use the major news sources in the way we would use any brief summary written for ninth graders: as the starting point for real reading.

No one says it better than Henry Rollins.