Computers replacing reporters 
to write the stories

And now comes the ultimate downsizing, according to Professor of Computer Science Dr. Kristian Hammond.

By 2030, computers will write newspaper stories, not humans.

Impossible? Well, the Los Angeles Times published a story about a California earthquake three minutes after it happened because the whole story was artificially generated by Hammond and reporter and programmer Ken Schwencke’s computer algorithm.

Hammond said that “a computer could write stories worthy of a Pulitzer Prize by 2017.”

While the L.A. Times is open about using a computer to write stories, other newspapers are doing the same thing without revealing that no humans were involved.

Computer-written stories are feasible, the article says,  "because mainstream news reporters working for the corporate press have increasingly abandoned their role as adversarial checks against government."

To read the article, click on http://www.infowars.com/professor-90-of-news-stories-to-be-written-by-computers-by-2030/

Later, the PD wrote about the earthquake-story-by-computer feat, and said the PD isn't using robots yet. To read the PD reaction, click on http://www.cleveland.com/readers/index.ssf/2014/03/robot_reports_a_story_but_even.html#incart_river