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Why not go one further and train their staff to search Flickr and Twitter for images instead?

What about firing all the editors and teaching the writers to do that themselves?

Get rid of all the janitorial staff and mandate everyone spend more time cleaning up.

You think you're using hyperbole but many articles going out nowadays never get read by an editor who actually edits for tone, readability, spelling, or even accuracy.

And the janitorial staff? You might be surprised to know how many of the actual journalistic sites you read don't even have offices, or at least not ones with desks for writers. Most of these people work at home.

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