The hate bubbles up inside me when I read this. I read an article by the late Robert Parry, describing the meticulous work he did combing through records in presidential libraries to uncover important stories. Then to read the assertion that a machine will do "journalism" is maddening.
I think that’s partly because of the invisible skills which go into journalism. It’s easy to synthesise the text of a story from pure factual detail (the example I saw was a program writing baseball news), but I have literally no idea how journalists work out which sources are reliable or which stories are important (imagine an editor who got the Watergate story but it was in the middle of a bundle of stories covering every sport event of the same week across the entire USA).
