Aggregator news sites drew traffic without ever turning real profit

Evidence

The Huffington Post wasn’t making money, but it was nonetheless sucking attention from everything else—especially journalists—on the web. That’s probably why The Washington Post’s executive editor slammed it and similar sites as “parasites living off journalism produced by others.” — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 956

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the pattern of aggregation undermining content originators, echoing the modern debate about platforms and publishers the reader tracks.