I think the biggest problem with ITN is that there are a few regulars who are on it always and relatively few outside voices.  We need more people who value the more interesting news, but who wants to stand there and get blown off all the time?  I went there assuming that the discovery of the first identified Solar sibling, a yellow star born from the very same cloud of dust and gas as that which birthed the Sun and Earth, was one of the biggest pieces of news of the decade, yet they didn't even want it.  