An MIT panel recently batted that question around, and Andrew Phelps has a summary on the Nieman Journalism Lab site. The answer may be yes, Phelps writes, but with caveats — including who does the labelling and who reads them: "Descriptive labels, rather than prescriptive labels, connote truth. But who is to determine the ingredients of a news story? And if we know how much of our news intake is opinion, celebrity gossip, and fluff, will that change our behavior?"
