> 2009/6/22 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: >> Journalists use each other's work all the time without, as far as I >> know, paying each other anything. It's a completely ridiculous >> complaint. > > Various organisations such as AP make good money selling their > stories. There are still some freelance journalists left and > traditionally stories were purchased from local newspapers. > > > The complaint is that we benefit from their front line reporting which > is rather expensive for them without carrying out front line reporting > of their own. > >>From a news company's POV there is little point in sending someone to > Iran to report on events if people are only going to read your reports > as rehashed by blogs and wikipedia. > > > -- > geni >
Remember, we have people in Iran. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
