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2017-06-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by badanov 2017-06-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Why pay reporters when you can just make up sh*t?
Hell, most of the recent NYT 'news' could be generated with a Markov chain.

Posted by SteveS 2017-06-24 00:32|| 2017-06-24 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I didn't know the NYT had reporters. Only 'Journalists' who write fiction.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-06-24 00:36|| 2017-06-24 00:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I think unpaid interns would do just as well.
I mean, seriously, at this point what difference does it make.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-06-24 02:59|| 2017-06-24 02:59|| Front Page Top

#4 the Gray Lady could begin another round

See no evil:

Hear no evil:

Posted by Skidmark 2017-06-24 06:57|| 2017-06-24 06:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Speak no evil:

Posted by Skidmark 2017-06-24 06:59|| 2017-06-24 06:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I think unpaid interns would do just as well.

High school or college 'work for credit' program?

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-24 07:55|| 2017-06-24 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 “Up until now, the company had not indicated that layoffs would happen if targeted numbers weren’t achieved,” Grant Glickson, president of the NewsGuild, told Media Ink.

Well, sure as hell the guys in the executive suite aren't going to take the hit. That would suggest error on their part, and these aren't the kind of people who admit that. They will continue to take their checks and benefits and insist a few more cuts are all that's necessary until all that's left downstairs is two guys with a desktop and printer.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-06-24 08:09|| 2017-06-24 08:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Why pay "reporters" a salary to rephrase material they are spoon fed by outside sources -- AI's and modern computers have reached that point already. Just pay for a human "editor" to correct the most egregious machine-ism's (like dealing with Engrish)..

Posted by magpie 2017-06-24 08:21|| 2017-06-24 08:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Like McDonalds, you could probably replace reporters with a kiosk.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-24 10:45|| 2017-06-24 10:45|| Front Page Top

#10 It's not like they doing anything useful. I mean, NYT's editorial positions are devoid of facts, so why would need reporters?

Posted by ed in texas 2017-06-24 11:36|| 2017-06-24 11:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Back in the early 80's my local Cable TV had one channel that mirrored the raw AP News feed -- just a paragraph or two of the basic story.
It was mind boggling to shortly see what product the local. and national, news twisted and massaged that story into!

Posted by magpie 2017-06-24 12:14|| 2017-06-24 12:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Do they employ any now?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-24 12:23|| 2017-06-24 12:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Just sign a deal with IBM to let Watson write stories from the words picked up by an Amazon Echo Alexa disguised as a coffee maker in any Ivy League faculty lounge.

Posted by Capsu78 2017-06-24 20:21|| 2017-06-24 20:21|| Front Page Top

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