Often the papers are doing the same, they're taking the information from a third-party that actually did the journalism. Yes, there's value in aggregation, whi

Often the papers are doing the same, they're taking the information from a third-party that actually did the journalism. Yes, there's value in aggregation, which is why tech news sites mostly just use Reddit to harvest stories from a week or so after they appear. IMO that's very low value. If the "news" sites wanted to encourage reward for sources they could start by attributing every story and indicating who they paid and the originator of the factual data. Truly though most of them would seemingly rather we paid them whilst they just regurgitate a social news site.