He misses the point: the value of a news item is going down because of the advent of Internet and the rise of Internet journalists. While they may not be of th

He misses the point: the value of a news item is going down because of the advent of Internet and the rise of Internet journalists. While they may not be of the caliber of a typical print journalist, that may be a supply-demand thing. Meaning if all newspapers blocked news aggregator, there is a high chance that there will be new folks producing newspaper-quality content who'd be happy to get the aggregator traffic.