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The Guardian in London rain a piece Tuesday by my friend Ed Pilkington, the paper’s correspondent in New York, about the financial woes of the photographer Annie Leibovitz. The piece was an efficient summary of this week’s article in New York magazine about Leibovitz's spendthrift ways. While Pilkington is an accomplished reporter, he does not appear to have picked up the phone to have confirmed any details in the piece or to have added to it in any way. He just summarized.I mention this because Dan Kennedy, a Guardian writer and a commentator about the media who lives in Boston, had a post on the Guardian’s website Tuesday excoriating Newser for…well…summarizing news.Newser is, he declared, “the most egregious example of abusive aggregation.”