The lesson for journalists here is: if you get into the habit of writing formulaic garbage, you WILL be replaced by a small shell script. We're a long way from

The lesson for journalists here is: if you get into the habit of writing formulaic garbage, you WILL be replaced by a small shell script. We're a long way from top writers like Hunter S Thompson (who was a sports journalist, among other things) being replaced by programs. Even far less outstanding writers still provide something valuable, by, for example, extracting knowledge and insight out of the data, rather than just regurgitating data in a human-readable format. If your job is to publish hard facts without insight or analysis, though, your job is toast.