Great thoughts @ebryans, and exactly what we're pursuing. Thanks for the plug.
We'd love to have journalists like Vanessa to promote. All we could promise her is more exposure and some votes. But such journalism would certainly boost the credibility of everyone involved.
We're actually working on a piece right now practically begging for good journalism on Steemit. There are some great articles and amazing writers, along with some pretty incredible opinion pieces, but very little journalism - and almost zero journalism on world events is written here. It's really wide open for folks who'd like to step up to the plate. But it's a lot of work and requires real contacts to actually do it well.
Loved the video in your linked post. That was classic. We'd use it too, except for the NSFW aspect.
Thanks again. This is a needed post. Unfortunately, it's not a journalistic one, so we can't resteem it. But it did get our vote!
BTW, there's no evidence that Mark Twain was the originator of that quote, or even if he ever said it at all. OTOH, though obviously not the originator, Denzel Washington clearly did. ;)