How to open links in new – blank tab or window?

I need to open up the feed links in a new tab instead of the same tab. I’ve checked the code and tried changing

$html .= '<a>get_permalink() . '" '.( (bool) get_option('newspage_newwindow') ? 'target=_new' : null ).'>'.$item->get_title();

to

$html .= '</a><a>get_permalink() . '" '.( (bool) get_option('newspage_newwindow') ? 'target=_blank' : null ).'>'.$item->get_title();

and

$html .= '</a><a>get_permalink() . '" '.( (bool) get_option('newspage_newwindow') ? 'target="_blank"' : null ).'>'.$item->get_title();

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but it still opens new the same parent tab / window.
Can anyone help?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/newspage/