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I think the future of news is intelligent, curated, aggregation. People aren't going to a single trusted source anymore. News organizations that can become to g

• iron_ball 18y ago
  Aggregate what? Quality reporting is difficult and expensive.
  • lacker 18y ago
    Newspapers won't disappear entirely. The point of aggregation is that by filtering and organizing the news, even if there is only 1% of the amount of quality reporting as there was in 1990, you can still get better reporting overall. I would prefer a Hacker News based on only 1% of the original reporting that there is today, rather than a fully funded New York Times.
    • brandnewlow 18y ago
      I don't understand what this means. If we only had %1 as many stories out there, this would be quite a boring place. I asked Kevin Rose once about niche social news sites, and he told me that taking a social approach to aggregation is a "drastic solution" that requires a drastic problem. If we only had %1 as many news stories being reported, would the problem still be drastic enough to require a solution like this?