OUTSOURCING U.S. NEWS...FROM INDIA???

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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