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                1. Just going to say it: I don't think it is a bad thing that multiple publications have similar headlines and takes on the same story.
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                'Scoops' are just inter-media measuring contests, right? So creating a modern news site is about creating a context that matters to readers.
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              The AP has been around for 169 years. During most of that time, almost every paper ran a number of *identical* articles w/*identical* heds
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            Point of running a wire story in a paper was to bring news to people who wouldn't have otherwise received it; not to be a special snowflake.
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          Even if we all want to agree that People Going Directly To Your Site is dead, the avg reader's news-sources are narrowed by algorithms.
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        Doing an aggro story that is basically same as every other take on story but with a slight spin for your audience. That's an improvement!
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      And running Generic Take On X in your site's context absolutely presents it to more people then it would otherwise have reached.
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    And you know what! Conversions to other articles! For money! So you can write the stories you really care about! This is a good thing!
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      The avg user isn't going to Techmeme or wherever to see all the identical headlines in a row. They're going thru a particular narrow funnel.
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        Go forth and push out your lukewarm near-identically headlined takes! News getting to more people is a journalistic value.
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          It doesn't matter if you are building a *context*. Either with an aggregation comment or in the rest of the site. Serve readers.
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            We can't cover everything, but we should give readership as much as is possible from within the one area we know they've gotten to, our own.
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