Actually, articles like this do mean something -- at least to the journalists that the software is already beginning to make fear for their jobs. As a full-tim

Actually, articles like this do mean something -- at least to the journalists that the software is already beginning to make fear for their jobs. As a full-time journalist who has also written some "robot reporter" code -- see "I wrote this article with one mouse click," http://coding.pressbin.com/60/I-wrote-this-article-with-one-mouse-click http://coding.pressbin.com/60/I-wrote-this-article-with-one-... -- I know first-hand that even though it takes a creative human to code the software, once the software is written, it's "set it and forget it" ... which means you no longer need to pay a journalist to write the article, which means bye-bye journalism jobs. (Of course, it also means hello-hello journalist-programmer jobs.)