Comments on: Is more really more? http://www.eire.com/2004/is-more-really-more/ Government, Infrastructure, Business Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:06:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bernie Goldbach http://www.eire.com/2004/is-more-really-more/comment-page-1/#comment-8870 Bernie Goldbach Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.eire.com/wordpress/?p=86#comment-8870 While I agree with your basic premise, I would hate to see you reduce your flow of online musings. While I agree with your basic premise, I would hate to see you reduce your flow of online musings.

]]> By: Karlin Lillington http://www.eire.com/2004/is-more-really-more/comment-page-1/#comment-8871 Karlin Lillington Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.eire.com/wordpress/?p=86#comment-8871 This a classic case of where less is more. Already people feel overwhelemd by information -- the job of a good journalist is to try to sift that into key elements in under 1000 words, usually. An intelligent reader with broader or deeper interests can explore further using the web, libraries, hey, even *blogs*. I think bloggers often can and do provide the other source material for those who want such detail. At any rate, how would such material be supplied and who would do the transcribing of notes etc? Who will pay for this additional work and who will do it? I can tell you that with the deadlines most working journos are on, it could not possibly be them unless consumers want to pay considerably more for their daily read and media outlets decide to hugely increase pay and staff. I'd drop down to about a story a week and would need an assistant completely au fait with my handwriting, working methods, and thought processes to help supply my source material in a consumable format. Not to mention that regularly, some of the source material cannot and should not be named -- and in the US that anonymity is a constitutional right. Many legal and ethical issues would arise. But hey, I'm willing to try if someone wants to pay me more, give me the assistant, digitise all reading materials from press releases to brochures and obscure publications, and cut my weekly story load! :^) This a classic case of where less is more. Already people feel overwhelemd by information — the job of a good journalist is to try to sift that into key elements in under 1000 words, usually. An intelligent reader with broader or deeper interests can explore further using the web, libraries, hey, even *blogs*. I think bloggers often can and do provide the other source material for those who want such detail.

At any rate, how would such material be supplied and who would do the transcribing of notes etc? Who will pay for this additional work and who will do it? I can tell you that with the deadlines most working journos are on, it could not possibly be them unless consumers want to pay considerably more for their daily read and media outlets decide to hugely increase pay and staff. I’d drop down to about a story a week and would need an assistant completely au fait with my handwriting, working methods, and thought processes to help supply my source material in a consumable format. Not to mention that regularly, some of the source material cannot and should not be named — and in the US that anonymity is a constitutional right. Many legal and ethical issues would arise.

But hey, I’m willing to try if someone wants to pay me more, give me the assistant, digitise all reading materials from press releases to brochures and obscure publications, and cut my weekly story load! :^)

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