Newspapers To Offer Their Own News Aggregators

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 9, 2005 @06:41AM from the rolling-your-own dept.

RedSteve writes "Wired News is reporting that several newspapers are about to take on news aggregators at their own game, offering their own branded newsreaders in direct competition with the likes of Google News. The Los Angeles Times, the Denver Post and British newspaper the Guardian will soon offer stand-alone newsreader software for reading stories on their own websites and those of their competitors. The move is apparently intended to capture the less tech-savvy news consumer who may not know what an RSS reader is, but know that their favorite paper now offers them a way to get lots of headlines from lots of places. Oh, and did I mention it allows the newspaper to maintain its brand and sell its own advertising based on what the user is viewing?"

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News as entertainment by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-09 06:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Call me cynical, but most of the news nowadays appears to be little more than advertisements, drama about people I will never meet whose predicaments will never happen to me, and masturbatory self-reporting of the media and Hollywood stars. So little of it is relevant to me that I don't bother reading or watching the news any more. I find that my blood pressure is all the better for it.
Hannity Dead of Apparent Suicide at 48 by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-09 06:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I know this might be off-topic, but I just heard some sad news on talk radio -- TV host Sean Hannity was found dead in his hotel room last night after a book signing. The coroner has not yet officially ruled it a suicide, but apparently that's what it's going to be ruled.

I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will mourn his passing -- even if you didn't agree with him, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.