News is cheap these days....

My its a long time since I have been here. Too busy on the old web site it seems. Anyway I just thought I would share this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/blog/2012/01/google-hangouts---a-new-tool-f.shtml

Now what with Twitter sending out from court rooms and war zo0nes. And Facebook linking us to anything anywhere. And newspapers like the Eastern Daily Press setting up i-witness zones where any old snap captured on a mobile can be launched into media land I ask this. Do we need reporters or photographers any more?

Well, we shall go one having writers of every variety - some worthwhile and some worth shooting. And we shall have paparazzi preying on the prominent. We shall even have correspondents commenting on the news which has always seemed a denial of the basic principle of news anyway.

More worryingly we may have even more snoopers and private detectives digging the dirt on the allegedly fame seeking as well as the genuinely unworthy.

Of course if the content of our newspapers is virtually free then why not the chip paper itself? Foot and gun in close proximity maybe?

Its a funny old world. We seem to know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.