Opinion | Washington Post :: The Post just had a rough few days. I think that the most noteworthy event was the resignation of Elizabeth Flock, a woman in her mid-20s whose job was filling The Post’s breaking news blog, called blogPost. It was designed to be about the national and international stories popular from hour to hour — trending — on the Internet. Flock’s job entailed some original reporting from Washington but a lot more of what we call “aggregation.” This is an imprecise term. At its best, aggregation can mean collecting stories on a topic from a variety of news outlets and directing readers toward them through Web links. At its worst, as Bill Keller, the former editor of the New York Times has written, it verges on theft.
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@jackshafer Re WaPo: Nonsense. Ombud pointed out bad system encouraging bad choices amid intense pressure. Only wish he'd talked solutions
— Christopher Wills (@ChrisBWills) April 21, 2012
We need the page views and six posts a day and we'll savage you if you make a mistake. Doesn't work. Not fair. Rethink. wapo.st/JgQfpe
— Jay Rosen(@jayrosen_nyu) April 22, 2012
"The Post fails a young blogger" - Continue to read Patrick B. Pexton, www.washingtonpost.com
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