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What is the world coming to?

First, copy editing and ad building ~~was~~ were sent overseas. (Thanks for the fix, OldReporter.)

Now, you can write a sports story without struggling over organization or word choice. (You certainly don't need to be at the actual sporting event.)

And, you can take a photo without a camera or even a scene or subject.

As a wonderful aside, the writer of that post marked the announcement of this photographical advancement this way: An event that will be remembered forever in the History of Humanity as the day in which a million dorks were finally able to put themselves in X-rated positions with Megan Fox.

I'm old-fashioned enough to like people doing stuff the old way, with pencils and interviews and cameras.

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Posted by John Robinson on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 3:14 pm

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OldReporter

October 20, 2009 - 4:51 pm EDT

I would be shocked to learn that copy editing and ad building was sent overseas. Back in my day, when I used to roll yellow copy paper into my upright Underwood, we didn't know much about virtual journalism.

We did, however, know that copy and ad building WERE sent overseas, not was.