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by edavison1 1091 days ago
The ‘content aggregator’ supported fantastic original reporting, increasing the share of knowledge in the world.

Generally speaking, the free content you love then uses the original reporting from these kinds of outlets and delivers poorly written nth degree xeroxes of that novel info.

At the end of the day, someone has to actually go out onto the polar ice or the remote research station and generate the story. So that’s the point imo.