Beneath the Peak

The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten has a satirical look at a California online newspaper’s decision to outsource coverage of city council meetings to reporters in India, who will watch the proceedings over the Internet.

Weingarten (inadvertently?) makes his point at the end of the story:

Next week: The Wuhan province in China issues its quarterly agricultural report. My fee is negotiable in U.S. dollars or yuan.

Wuhan is a city of 9 million people, not a province.

More on outsourced journalism from the Freakonomics blog and Buzzmachine.