Outsourcing The News To India

The New Haven Advocate decided to see what it would be like:

We posted ads on Craigslist in Bangalore and Mumbai back in March seeking journalists to write this issue of our paper — news, arts, food, sex advice, the auto column, the horoscope, the whole pakora. In just weeks, we had over 100 replies from Indian freelancers willing to do just about anything for us. Some were journalists with impressive credentials — The Guardian, BBC, The Times of India — and others were "content writers" or technical writers hungry for any assignment we could throw them.

It's interesting to read the articles for this issue. I think they probably sound to me roughly how my Spanish essays sound to a native speaker. It's mostly correct English, but the style just isn't there.

State Sen. Rob Kane, R-Watertown, says an overwhelming majority of U.S. people favor capital punishment... While many will argue that the death penalty is hardly a deterrent to murderers, each heinous incident has certainly affected public opinion regarding the death penalty. A November 2007 poll conducted after the Petit family murder showed a 63 percent support in favor of the death penalty.