@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.