NOTE TO SELF: Send note to Lou Dobbs.
Be afraid, U.S. journalists...be very afraid.
There was a job posting presumably in Pasadena, CA, seeking a journalist based in India to report on the city and political scene in Pasadena, California.
You read it right: a journalist based in India! Talk about taking outsourcing to the extreme.
"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. But he said it can be done from afar now that weekly Pasadena City Council meetings can be watched over the Internet. And he said the idea makes business sense because of India's lower labor costs."
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2007/05/10/4169470-ap.html
www.pasadenalivingmagazine.com/contents.html
If this is indeed the reality then this is out-sourcing taken to the extreme. A very scary precedent for anyone working in the print/news business.
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Are they THAT desperate to pay Indian wages to a Pasadena journalist ... o I don't know what to say. Only maybe I ought to get a job on the Chinese People's Daily based here in London... if it's still out ... BTW hi! I found you at random with a hop out of mine (http://gledwood2.blogspot.com)... I just opened 2 new video blogs as well. So come have a look at it all and tell me what you think!! All the very best to you
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