Consumers becoming editors
July 25th, 2005 
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AP posted a story about RSS and the attitude towards it with quotes from mainstream media and others.
The old idea of surfers coming to your Web site and coming to your front door, that’s going away. People are going to come in through the side window, through the basement, through the attic, anyway they want to.
Jim Brady, executive editor of The Washington Post’s Web site
“When we all started this 10 years ago, we wanted to be the one and only place people come to. These days, he said, the Post is happy simply to be one of many sources checked daily. He sees his home page as a starting point, and during the July 7 bombings in London, the Post even linked to the BBC, something unfathomable a few years ago.
“When we all started this 10 years ago, we wanted to be the one and only place people come to. These days, he said, the Post is happy simply to be one of many sources checked daily. He sees his home page as a starting point, and during the July 7 bombings in London, the Post even linked to the BBC, something unfathomable a few years ago.
Neil Budde, general manager for Yahoo News: “In this world where people are looking for multiple points of view, if all you’re giving them is your view, … they are going to leave anyway and maybe be less likely to come back.”
