Well, Scott Adams on newspapers. But he is Dilbert as Bruce Wayne is to Batman. Right?
What I’d like to see is a newspaper that is a hybrid of social voting, such as you see on web sites like www.reddit.com and www.digg.com, but further filtered by human editors who weed out the redundant, the juvenile, and the stuff unsubstantiated by facts.
Interesting comment that. Juvenile I get but you’d think Digg and Reddit would by their very nature weed out redundant and unsubstantiated stories. People don’t hit the Digg button without reading the story, right? Surely they don’t vote for a story 5 minutes after they’ve just read and voted for something similar, right? Do people want their favourite information site favouring unsubstantiated and redundant stories?
Otherwise Scott has some good points. Though I do wish he’d scope his comment to the developed world. Back home in South Africa it is going to take more than two rounds of mobile phones to kill the printed newspaper. I imagine India, China and many other countries are the same.
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