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It turns out that news aggregation, that is the ‘meta role of repackaging’ content that is ‘already out there’ (or that’s at least how Adage refers to it) is killing journalist’s integrity. Whereas there used to be ‘articles written by big-name, big-dollar contributors who spent weeks or even months reporting and crafting their stories’ now there are only a ‘few editors to handpick stuff already kicking around the internet that will be ranked or graded, perhaps in some slickly designed graph’.
— Marisa Peacock, whose words on the goods and the bads of web-based journalism have just been aggregated and repackaged.
