Social news sites never seem to be strictly news, sometimes in complete contempt of their domain or site names. Personally I blame, in order: the term 'Web 2.0', Wikipedia, and the rap music.

I guess it's not, but lots of things that appear on Hacker "News" are nothing more than "bookmarks"

But bookmarks of new pages at least, which are notable for their currency. This is just an emacs site. It's like posting a link to http://google.com and calling it "Search" or something...