Calif. Web site outsources reporting [uses reporters in India to cover Pasadena City Council]

AP ^ | May 10, 2007 | JUSTIN PRITCHARD

[Disturbin]

This will be good for the Indians who don’t want to do tech support for Dell.

[LexBaird]

Michael Kinsley used to be the Editor of the LA Times while living in Seattle. If he could cover LA from there, why not Pasadena from Bangalore?

[Psycho_Bunny]

Maybe we should consider outsourcing the "Bushs Fault" posts.

 

[goodnesswins]

Can we say....”Out of touch?” The MSM continues to decline....OR...maybe it says something about GOVERNMENT!

[sionnsar]

Given that it's the MSM, I say "Right on!"

1. We might get more accurate, honest reporting.
2. Homegrown professional liars go unread, and on the dole.

[weegee]

Good thing is is makes it harder for the local politicians to try to influence the reporters. Bad news is the editor still has the final say.

And living in India, the reporter most likely doesn’t give a #$%!@# about personal property rights or rising taxes in California so whatever the city council says “is good for the community” will probably get pro-coverage.

[guinness4strength]

this is hilarious, as a former reporter, covering meetings in person often SUCKED (boring) but was necessary to truly monitor the government and call them out if corruption surfaced - the townies who hang out after themeeting probably aren’t on the out-sourced reporter’s call list

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Why not indeed. Rush Limbaugh covers the US Congress from South Florida.

[sionnsar]

Can we outsource empty-head air-blown teeeveee "news" reporters too?

(Not that that'll bring me back...)

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

...and he does a better job than any Washington based reporter.

[weegee]

It’ll just give the barking moonbats more time to go to lecture at schools, agitate, and protest.

Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.

[sionnsar]

Good point, but at least the distribution is restricted.

And when the dole runs out they might learn useful phrases, such as "Would you like to Supersize that?"

[RedMonqey]

"We seek a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA."

Makes senswe to me.... Indian reporters can get the facts wrong just as easily and with less cost than American "journalists"

[Bernard Marx]

Michael Kinsley used to be the Editor of the LA Times while living in Seattle.

I dislike the LA Times as much as anyone but I believe in "accuracy in criticism." Kinsley was the Opinion Page Editor in absentia, not the Editor. There's a vast difference. IMO it's quite possible to oversee writing editorials and op-ed columns for a left-wing paper from anywhere because it's all the same dishonest liberal propaganda anyway. But covering Pasadena's local news from India illustrates why that website won't be around very long.

[Dumpster Baby]

First story being written now.....

[PAR35]

I would expect reporters half a world away to have less bias on local issues than would local folks who would bear the burden or reap the benefits.

[Missey_Lucy_Goosey]

James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the two-year-old Web site pasadenanow.com, acknowledged it sounds strange to have journalists in India cover news in this wealthy city just outside Los Angeles.

ROFL

It doesn't sound strange. It sounds S-T-U-P-I-D!

[LexBaird]

Kinsley was the Opinion Page Editor in absentia, not the Editor. There's a vast difference.

Not at the LAT, there isn't. News IS opinion driven. But, point taken; I should have written AN editor, not THE editor. I must plead the Clinton defense: it depends on the meaning of "the".

[Bernard Marx]

News IS opinion driven.

Sadly that's true at the Times and I'm LOL at your comeback. I live within its circulation area and canceled my subscription in 1988 for that reason. But you can mail in the content of most papers' op-ed pages from anywhere.