Newsphobia

Hi there Mr Editor,

Long time reader, first time writer. There’s just been something plaguing my thoughts for quite a while and every day it seems to get worse.

I’m an avid reader of blogs such as Mashable and TechCruch, and I subscribe to them via RSS using Google Reader. It is always a source of amusement seeing Asher Moses, the SMH’s technology reporter, lift stories I read up to four days ago from various tech blogs and report them almost verbatim in his column.

I would consider this rather redundant reporting, and one of my colleagues suggested, and I agreed, that your paper would be much better served if Asher’s column space was converted into an RSS reader (such as Google Reader) subscribed to all the websites Mr Moses lifts his articles from. For starters, it would be much more cost effective for Fairfax in these tough economic times, and your readers would also benefit by not getting news that is usually at least a day old from blogs!

Please let me know if you need assistance in setting this up, and I will more than happily show you how to do it.

It’s a win-win situation!

Sincerely,

Josh.