According to Dan Rather, "News is something people need to know which someone, somewhere, doesn't want them to know. All the rest is advertising."

This is an interesting statement (I won't say "good news").  Why?  Because there are millions of people out there who don't want us to continue spreading the Good News about Christ, the Bible and the fact that there is an absolute Truth, regardless of the liberal worldview currently offered by the mainstream media.  These are often the same people who disagree with homeschooling because they believe homeschoolers teach their children the "wrong" things (by definition...things the detractors don't want them to know, or at least don't want them to know to the exclusion of other ideas).

Rather made this comment during a speech at the Maine Center for the Arts.  Elsewhere in the speech, he warned listeners to "be critical of" new media (which includes blogs).  One might think, from his comments, that he doesn't want his listeners to hear what the bloggers are saying. 

Which - by Rather's definition - makes bloggers, Christians and homeschoolers a source of ....

(you knew this was coming)

.... news.