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I find myself inclined to pay for news because just about all of the freely available opinion dressed up as news and/or analysis is complete tosh, and aggregators only get you so far. To wit, I fork over my hard earned for a copy of the FT 6 days a week, and would gladly do so to access HN.

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I would also more than happily pay for hacker news, but since it's free and user submitted I think it is a different case.

Perhaps there should be a general news site where the users submit the news articles themselves, it would probably be faster than the ACTUAL news companies who have to send out a reported, as opposed to a civilian on the streets witnessing it happen.

(Of course, then the news corporations would leech off the site.)

Bronwen Clune attempted something like that a few years ago with a company called Norg Media http://www.crunchbase.com/company/norg-media - there have been others too, of course, but no one has managed to get particularly far.

It would require a lot of development time I think and I really think it's a great idea, especially to get there (in the public eye anyway) first, but I am only 2 months or so away from finishing a project my team is working on, seeing how quickly ideas expire on the internet it will be taken or obsolete by the time I have the free time.

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