Sunday, November 30, 2008
Why Bother?
Maureen Dowd is worried about U.S. newspapers "off-shoring" reporting:
- [James Macpherson] fired his seven Pasadena staffers Ñ including five reporters Ñ who were making $600 to $800 a week, and now he and his wife direct six employees all over India on how to write news and features, using telephones, e-mail, press releases, Web harvesting and live video streaming from a cellphone at City Hall.
I wondered how long it would be before some guy in Bangalore was writing my column about President Obama.
