Personally I don't like it because of the duplicates and new threads about the same topic.
For example, we were discussing the hit by Buddy Franklin on Ben Cousins yesterday. This morning when I logged in it is about 3 pages in because of all the spam from the news feed, and there are another 3 or 4 threads on the same topic.
If I wanted to read the news I'd go to a news site and read it. I think the forum should be for discussing whats going on, not linking to news sites. But that's just my opinion.
I find it really frustrating when there are 4 or 5 threads all relating to the same story but from a different site or with a slight update. If there could be one thread with multiple links in it that would be fine but at the moment I'm finding it really difficult to keep track and stay involved.
The news feeds are a good idea to get topics going, but maybe they should be posted manually rather than automatically added so that there is not so many threads on the same topic?