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Re:Journalists decry Facebook experiment's impact on democracy by marcus_holmes on Saturday October 28, 2017 @11:03PM (#15577784)
> HN/Reddit being aggregators isn't relevant to my point - I derive value from these sites and browse to them directly. If your site was that valuable, people would do the same. Besides, much news in newspapers is also just aggregations of AP/Reuters stories.

It is exactly relevant to your point. You don't derive value from those sites, you derive value from the content those sites link to.

AP/Reuters are also aggregators, they pull stories written elsewhere into a feed that publishers can use.

At some point, somewhere underneath this pile of aggregation, someone needs to actually do some journalism. And get paid for it.

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Re:Journalists decry Facebook experiment's impact on democracy by peoplewindow on Sunday October 29, 2017 @06:18PM (#15581797)
Hardly. I derive as much value from the comments as the articles themselves most often.

But seeing as you're stuck on the aggregation aspect, I also directly navigate to several news sources.

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