Reprocessing won't break news

Just catching up on yesterday's papers and I have read the article by Peter Prseton in the Observer.Under the title Reporters are always the key,he says that

"supplies of the essential commodity called 'reliable news' are 'dwindling' fast"

Quoting from New York Times editor Bill Kelner

the civic labour performed by journalists on the ground cannot be replicated by legions of bloggers hunched over screens. It cannot be replaced by a search engine or supplanted by shouting heads and satirical TV shows. Most of the blog world does not even attempt to report. It recycles. It riffs on the news. And that's not bad. It's just not enough, not nearly enough.'

And Peter ends with a thought

Reprocessing didn't bring us last week's Mail on Sunday scoop about Labour funding. Reprocessing can't cover wars or dive into foxholes. Reprocessing is an edifice built on other people's toil, trouble and, sometimes, courage. And if, 10 years on, reprocessing is all that's left, then the media information tsunami will have been exactly that: a digital disaster