According to Google Trends, during the past few years, there has been nothing but a few minor bumps that faded away as quickly as they came. I love RSS because i do not have to scroll through dozens of different news sites all day and i would love it to return.
EDIT: Typical case of people only reading the headline. I was asking why people are hyped over something that did NOT happen.
A third party isn't involved. An RSS feed pulls in the data from the source.
My point is that you find a trusted news source and you don't have Google, Facebook, Apple, or Xitter deciding what you should see.