What is legitimate "newsgathering" and what is "piracy"?

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What is legitimate “newsgathering” and what is “piracy”?

Zunguzungu’s got an excellent, nuanced piece on the creation and attribution of value in newsgathering and reporting. Zz reminds us that the current arrangement is perfect arbitrary and conti…

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/06/what-is-legitimate-n.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag

There’s certainly a lot of do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do in the current round of future-of-news handwringing: this is the narrative that allows a “newspaper” whose news is ninety percent curated picks from the newswires, run verbatim without comment or context, to be full of democratic virtue; while websites that examine, criticize and contextualize those same stories are parasites who contribute nothing.