This has been tried with tech support. A lot of companies that did this have since moved call centres back to North America. Why? Because the customers revolted

This has been tried with tech support. A lot of companies that did this have since moved call centres back to North America. Why? Because the customers revolted. So the only thing this will achieve is to speed the death of the newspaper. Instead of differentiating themselves from all the spamblogs out there they seek to join them. They seem to not understand that the only purpose of those is to game Google rankings, which don't exist on paper.