Which fails completely when the subject is in any way political or controversial.
I don't think it fails completely. Failing completely would mean that it's clearly worse than the alternatives.
If I have a political question such as what happened at the Paris attacks, Wikipedia provides good answers.
Is there a single market driven or hierarchical organisation that you would consider to be completely trustworthy on the topic of Racial bias in criminal news in the United States
How much money would it take to engineer biological immortality for at least half of the world's population, within 20 years, with 99% confidence?