Los Angeles Times
Pasadena Star-News editor
Larry Wilson is skeptical of a local website's
plan to cover Pasadena with reporters in India. "To pretend you can get the feel and the culture of a town as complicated and interesting as Pasadena by e-mailing and doing things over the Internet is nutty," he says.
Rob Gunnison of UC Berkeley's j-school adds: "It just seems so fundamental to journalism to be
there. I still can't quite believe it's not a hoax."
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Star-News editor Wilson writes: "[
James Macphearson's] scheme to hire content-suppliers, as the awful term goes, for his very local operation Pasadena Now from half a world away is generating publicity, even if it all reads like a story from The Onion."
(Pasadena Star-News)
