Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Friday, June 01, 2007


Which raises the question: how utterly dependent have news organizations become on the ASSPress and al Reut for their reporting? How much of what makes the news ultimately has its root in wire-service copy? How are we served by three or four outfits reporting our news? One must ask as the Web becomes our sole source for news -- and as the wire services become the sole source for the Web.

And localism as a defense is a fraud because relatively few care for local news, and as so much of it is disseminated by 800-pound gorillas anyway.

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