buck wrote:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/media/0,72067-0.html
Colour me cynical, but isn't this a way for Gannett to reduce their
reporting staff?
Hard to say. Consider this quote from the article:
"We weren't prepared for the volume, and we had to throw a lot more
firepower just to handle the phone calls and e-mails,"...
And this one:
"The newspaper of the future is going to need more programmers than
copy editors,..."...
In a way, it reminds me of Swift's flappers. All of the data out
there, who decides what part of it is aggregated and/or presented
for general public consumption?
Tom Liotta
