Welcome to Bangalo... Pasadena, sorry.

Wonder if this guy is looking for a Rose Bowl reporter next year. I imagine the view my my couch is as good as the one from India.

 

Of Cour... nah.. let's be serious...

 

Take this story and the the robots writing business briefs and it don't look good. When is India going to be able to start managing so eds can see their jobs out-sourced. Good grief. The bar keeps getting lowered. I'm sure someone at Gannett world headquarters is already on a plane to Mumbai.

 

Dammit!

 

It would be worth it -- unless I lost my nose for news.

 

Have fun with that.

 

Nice

 

It would be a raise if you worked for JRC or CNHI...

 

Holy. Shit. Nope, never thought this would happen, Guess I'm not forward thinking enough to believe ou have to actually be on the same CONTINENT as the place you're covering.

 

They still have the plague, can you believe it. The plague.

Do you get chilled monkey brains like in Temple of Doom.

 

Here is what the Los Angeles Times reported on this: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pasadena11may11,1,7515978.story

 

The problem is you can't cover this by watching television.

It would be easier to cover sports on television, because today it is possible to get post-game comments from press conferences after watching the game. If somebody went to cover a game and didn't talk to the coaches and players, usually it wouldn't be a good story.

SF Express, I am sure you know better. This is, in effect, stenography. It is writing press releases and a summary. I looked on the website, and most of the stuff is press releases and bloggers writing uninformed opinions and complaining about the Star News coverage. There may be some nice designs on the website, but where's the beef.

Look at this website, and find a bylined story. It may be packaged attractively, but it is pablum in a pretty box.

http://www.pasadenalivingmagazine.com/contents.html

I covered school board and municipal meetings for a long time. These fellows in India are probably pretty smart, but they don't know the ins and outs of municipal government and they won't be able to ask the city engineer how a project will work. They won't be able to go up to the city attorney and ask about a point of state law as it affects municipalities. They won't be able to press a council member on a point they made. They won't be able to challenge the mayor of Jersey City who says that 1,200 people at a meeting were organized by communists - because I asked the mayor how many of the 1,200 were communists and how could the communists manage to organize so many people in a place like Jersey City.

If people want to read pablum, I guess outsourcing coverage is the way to go. But I feel pretty confident I could eat this James Macpherson for lunch when it comes to covering a meeting.