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"The stenography model of journalism must die. Many random people off the street will be able to paste together a "he said, she said" story. What the hyperliterate media marketplace needs are experts who can analyze, and advocate for, information in the public interest.
"That demands journalists who have professional-level training and experience with the beats that they cover. It demands journalists who have the analytical skills, including training in statistics, to make sense of datasets and to find the stories buried within them. It will demand journalism schools to become significantly more selective in the students that they admit – choosing only those with the academic skills and performance to meet these new demands."
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As many companies have done during the recession, Assurance Wireless is offering a free service to the unemployed, or underemployed, during a rough time in their lives with the hope that they'll stay customers when they get back on their feet financially.
Nice, sure. But why does it cost double for more minutes when one of the parent company's prepaid plans is 10 cents a minute?
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