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The import date for the news items is not correct.\n\nIt is supposed to use the date from the feed. And it used to work like this. For example: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/news/digital-dickinson\n\nThat news item was imported on 11/20/13 (see the \"authoring information\"), but it correctly states 10/23/13 as the news date.  It is currently using the import date.\n\n**Description**\n\nYou should be able to import news items from an external source.  This could be RSS to start but if other formats make sense we could do that as well.\n\n\nNews Items would not be created \"on the fly\" but would require moderation.  This would solve a number of issues:\n\n* No requirement for the system to do automatic polling of N sources since polling is done on demand.\n\n* Allows moderated categorized full content types with all the features that come with the news content type.\n\n* Provides low barrier of entry for users who want to contribute to a site without the site owner giving up control or access\n\n* Content that will not be used is not imported, and runaway dead feeds are not updated.\n\n* Auto updating RSS feeds are already available via the feed reader feature with asynchronous retrieval and browser side caching without moderation."}}