[jonah] off topic a bit - news feeds

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Quinn Wilson <Quinn.Wilson@midworld.org>:

> Sorry if this a no-no on this list, but I can't imagine where else to ask
> 
> this question. I'm looking for newsfeeds from local news sites, popular
> TV 
> network news sites (like CNN) and it seems bizarre to me that there is
> not 
> much out there. 
> 
> I have sent email's to "feedback@" addresses on these site's asking for
> some 
> and they've all gone unanswered. Are these news feeds unpopular with the
> news 
> reporting crowd? Are they perhaps obscure/unknown to them? I realize
> there 
> are many available through moreover.com and many excellent technical 
> news/discussion sites out there. I guess I was expecting to be able to
> find 
> one on news site X because all the "news reporting" type sites would know
> 
> about this as a publishing medium. 
> 
> Maybe I am missing the point altogether and this type of service exists
> in a 
> pay through the nose kind of arrangement, but only among cross-commercial
> 
> partnering of some kind? 

You're last assumption is absolutely correct. The news on most of the 
commercial sites are powered by a third party and payed for. And news sites 
don't want to give away for free what makes their main income. 
Understandable.

Jan.

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