@reasoning logic,
												News as reports of incidents or as guides to underlying trends?  I should think their reports of football results are reliable.  
I had in mind those authors whose manuscripts and letters are bought by universties and used as justification for departmental specialisation.  
Biblical studies for example.  The University of Buffalo has a collection of James Joyce material.  Also the university of Wisconsin.  One letter from Joyce to Nora Barnacle was sole at auction for $440,000.