If the news page is empty, then the problem is likely that the blog rss feed has a title that has ill-formed HTML, such as an apostrophe or other strange character.

<p>To fix this, as root on moog, review the contents of 
<code>/export/home1/tmp/php.err</code> and look for error messages.</p>

<p>If you get "MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file", then 
the problem is likely that text pasted into a blog item has a strange character.</p>

<p>To narrow this down, edit <code>/home/www/php/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc</code>, find the <code>_fetch_remote_file</code> function, uncomment the log_event() line to see the xml in /export/home1/tmp/php.err.  Copy the xml to a file and run <code>xmllint</code>.

<p>One issue is that having single quotes in the title causes problems.</p>

<p>The fix is to go to the blog and edit the the title and remove the single quote.  An alternative is to replace the single quote with the html code for a single quote:</p>
<pre>
&amp;#39;
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