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On Sun, 23 Apr 1995, Mindy McAdams wrote:

> > a great deal of reporter's first reaction was "is this going
> > to cost my job," and have been reluctant to embrace, nay, even learn
> > about the technology. [That is, the online version of their paper.]

> Another reaction some newsroom folks have at first is "Are they going 
> to make me do extra work?"
The good news, yes there will be plenty of work.  The main functions of a 
reporter, investigation and follow-up don't change, and you have 
gigabytes to follow up on.  In addition, instead of hanging out at the 
police station all day, you can hang out in alt.politics.republican or 
alt.abortion.

> Perhaps the best response: "Wow, does this mean I get a modem?!"
Yes, and maybe even your own web-server. (Why not just link to your page?)

> Mindy McAdams                                             Digital Ink Co.

Rex Ballard (Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill)


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Tue May  2 23:30:42 1995