>What's really insidious is that they mix well-sourced, real news with absolute trash, so if you're just looking at the headlines it's not unreasonable to think that they're all real. That is, until you click on one of the trash articles and find that the "source" is a blog that sources another blog, which sources yet another blog and so on.

So like the rest of the news?

The point of news is to have a spectrum and you read them and determine the truth for yourself.

None of the points you make validate a ban.