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Yeah, exactly. I know people in the journalism industry. Many people on this site see to believe they can be replaced by bots. Good luck with that, and if it

• ben_w 7y ago
  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).
  • gerbilly 7y ago
    Totally agree. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
    • lowdose 7y ago
      That was a nice wiki rabbit hole!