[Nuc1]

And the whole system is based on a kind of intellectual theft. Internet aggregators (who link to news they don't produce) and bloggers would have little to collect or comment upon without the costly enterprise of newsgathering and investigative reporting. The old-media dinosaurs remain the basis for the entire media food chain.

There is some merit to this position. Some type of licensing agreements should probably be arranged. That said what is normally done with MSM articles? They're dissected and the truth and MSM mendacity is exposed. Frankly, they have become little more than subject matter for discussion rather than the purveyors of unknown information.

[dsc]

“without the costly enterprise of newsgathering”

From what I understand, very little of that actually goes on among the lamestream media.