Comments on: The wars of Romanian media http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/19/the-wars-of-romanian-media/ Writings and whereabouts Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Eddie http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/19/the-wars-of-romanian-media/#comment-10091 Eddie Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:23:52 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/19/the-wars-of-romanian-media/#comment-10091 You're wright, Cristi! And from this point, a looong dialog can be started. Anyway, out of the topic, I have to say that Cristi Lupsa is the best contributor FHM Romania had in years and I have to be sorry that he isn't anymore. :-) What about this, Cristi? Join me with a mail, I'd love a proposal-talk with you! Eddie http://eddietone.blogspot.com You’re wright, Cristi! And from this point, a looong dialog can be started.
Anyway, out of the topic, I have to say that Cristi Lupsa is the best contributor FHM Romania had in years and I have to be sorry that he isn’t anymore. :-)
What about this, Cristi? Join me with a mail, I’d love a proposal-talk with you!

Eddie
http://eddietone.blogspot.com

]]> By: Romer!can http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/19/the-wars-of-romanian-media/#comment-9973 Romer!can Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:19:48 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/19/the-wars-of-romanian-media/#comment-9973 Speaking of middle ground in future journalism, am I remiss in noticing that news.google.com has accepted (and features) articles from Playfuls.com which is a Romanian outfit conjuring up stories in English which *appear* to be written by people who essentially rewrite AP/other mixed sources? I've seen them write about sports and entertainment in America which they could never reasonably have any direct experience in. At the risk of making accusations, it sometimes seem as though some smart person has hired a roomful of monkeys and typewriters to remanufacture "news" based exclusively on what they read others saying. If that's a legitimate business model and promulgated to profitability by Google, then I sense a whole new era whereby just about anyone can corral a team of rewriters to absorb the opinions of first-hand media and then repurpose content into original word-choice... then sell it as original work. Perhaps they really have journalists that understand the music, the sports, the entertainment, the world events, the US politics, and other topics they so profusely extrude copy about... but to the discerning reader, it appears like a sickening farce. Speaking of middle ground in future journalism, am I remiss in noticing that news.google.com has accepted (and features) articles from Playfuls.com which is a Romanian outfit conjuring up stories in English which *appear* to be written by people who essentially rewrite AP/other mixed sources?

I’ve seen them write about sports and entertainment in America which they could never reasonably have any direct experience in. At the risk of making accusations, it sometimes seem as though some smart person has hired a roomful of monkeys and typewriters to remanufacture “news” based exclusively on what they read others saying.

If that’s a legitimate business model and promulgated to profitability by Google, then I sense a whole new era whereby just about anyone can corral a team of rewriters to absorb the opinions of first-hand media and then repurpose content into original word-choice… then sell it as original work.

Perhaps they really have journalists that understand the music, the sports, the entertainment, the world events, the US politics, and other topics they so profusely extrude copy about… but to the discerning reader, it appears like a sickening farce.

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