Yes, this is just another example of the classic and ongoing disintermediation enabled by internet technologies. Once I had access to the raw news feeds availa

Yes, this is just another example of the classic and ongoing disintermediation enabled by internet technologies. Once I had access to the raw news feeds available to journalists (Reuters, AP, AFP, etc), it became clear that the novel content of local newspapers was vanishingly small. With the rise of special interest blogs of every sort, there was simply no reason to endure the mangled versions of the news feeds offered by local newspapers.