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I think we're seeing that shift already happening. My personal preference, however, remain correspondent pieces - which some newspapers simply excel at. I find agency wires and press releases generally too flat and lacking context, so I think I see your point to use them as pointers and expand from there.

And I know that ET, in current status, does not have the reader's input for what I described. But a man can dream. Hey, in 5 years or so, the baby boom generation should have been completely retired and daily active on the web... (Although I wonder how progressive they are...)

by Nomad on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 06:26:35 AM EST
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When I was in the US, I despaired at the pieces that El Pais' correspondents published. Not only I could usually pick out which agency wire they were mistranslating, but when they wrote something to put stories in context they usually got the context worng (or, rather, they didn't recognize the kool-aid and just passed it on). I wondered why they bothered. Considering that newspapers now syndicate their content internationally, you don't even need to have a permanent correspondent on the off chance that they'll get an interview with someone. Sigh...

On the other hand, Democracy Now had had the daughter of an El Pais writer as an intern, and they used her as a Spain-based correspondent when they needed it. That was neat.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 06:53:07 AM EST
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When I was in the US, I despaired at the pieces that El Pais' correspondents published. Not only I could usually pick out which agency wire they were mistranslating, but when they wrote something to put stories in context they usually got the context worng (or, rather, they didn't recognize the kool-aid and just passed it on).

I stopped reading the international section of Hungarian papers around three years ago for similar reasons.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 07:02:41 AM EST
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Your last anecdote exemplifies the kind of corresponding that I favour, and which I feel the world needs a lot more. But hey, that costs manpower, and that costs...

I don't see the point of "correspondents" who copy-paste from the wire. What an ill name for an increasingly outdated concept.

by Nomad on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 08:53:09 AM EST
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frickin' reactionaries every last one. Believe me, I know.

Afew Chocolate Pie Technology ™
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 06:54:09 AM EST
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Shouldn't that be "pancake with lemon and sugar" technology?
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 07:46:15 AM EST
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With Nomad, it's chocolate pie...
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 at 08:04:55 AM EST
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