I can't say with any certainty about how much you could automate the job of a featured journalist or editorialist for a big journalistic institution like the Ec

I can't say with any certainty about how much you could automate the job of a featured journalist or editorialist for a big journalistic institution like the Economist or maybe the Times, but I'd say at the current quality network and cable news reports are going...automating the "what's up right now" news is probably already doable. That's not necessarily saying a lot about the algorithm, though.