One of the editors of a major paper once told me that they viewed their primary product as _credibility_, not newspapers. In chasing pageviews, CNN is pursuing

One of the editors of a major paper once told me that they viewed their primary product as _credibility_, not newspapers. In chasing pageviews, CNN is pursuing a race to the bottom. They have to compete with HuffPo and AOL and another million sites that aggregate or regurgitate content. I stopped going to CNN.com a long time ago and I rarely see it as a linked site in any discussions online. That's not a good sign if they want to grow their business and uniques (which are a more important metric than pageviews for an advertising-based site.)