Great overview/backgrounder by Rusty Coats on what RSS can do for news operations. Additional cred due to couching the tech in traditional newsie terms and appearing in a relatively straightforward press venue.
Similarly, JD Lasica has a news aggregator roundup in the Online Journalism Review. His take is couched as more of a time saver than a mechanism for news dissemination.
I'm starting to sense a gathering snowball of RSS acceptance outside of the technorati community.