A couple of freefromeditors contributors offered a couple items for your reading pleasure. The following pullout quote is from the first link and is so incredibly simplistic that the fact it comes from a so-called publisher is staggeringly revealing.
"In today's world, whether your desk is down the hall or around the world, from a computer standpoint, it doesn't matter," Singleton said after his speech. (I guess Singleton believes one could develop a beat relationship with a source over the phone from India. No more "All the President's Men."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003875952
And then there's this bad news for the Associated Press:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003874855
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From the story:
"Two Florida papers owned by The New York Times Co. said in August they were merging news and copy desk functions, design, layout and pagination. The McClatchy Co. papers in Raleigh and Charlotte, are sharing sports and political reporting staff."
And the news/layout/editing/paginating/designing staffers can deliver the newspapers on routes that comprise most of their commute home, while the circulation director drives his BMW and the publisher and editor drive their company-supplied cars to their company-paid country club.
That last was such good satire that I started to believe it. It's sad that with the state of affairs that such an outrageous suggestion that it is believable.
If you will permit me to add to the satire, they will let you deliver the newspaper on the way home, but because you were going anyway, you won't get mileage.
And they will need your personal cellphone number, in case there's a vacation stop. But they will only reiumburse 10 cents per minute to use your phone, and only if you spend an hour highlighting your detailed cellphone bill for all "business" calls, and turn it in once a month.
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