[WikiEN-l] Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site

[Fred Bauder]

> 2009/6/22 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> Journalists use each other's work all the time without, as far as I
>> know, paying each other anything. It's a completely ridiculous
>> complaint.
>
> Various organisations such as AP make good money selling their
> stories. There are still some freelance journalists left and
> traditionally stories were purchased from local newspapers.
>
>
> The complaint is that we benefit from their front line reporting which
> is rather expensive for them without carrying out front line reporting
> of their own.
>
>>From a news company's POV there is little point in sending someone to
> Iran to report on events if people are only going to read your reports
> as rehashed by blogs and wikipedia.
>
>
> --
> geni
>

Remember, we have people in Iran.

Fred