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Aggregators and press freedom
On World press freedom day (well, night) I learned about the Huffington Post opening in Germany soon. I am skeptical about these publishing systems that pay only a small number of their authors/employees. Plus, news aggregation, especially without curation and with little or no original content, can hardly foster democracy: