Robo Journalism

Politico had two articles (very short) which are possibly the most non-journalism I have ever seen. Just the dry facts written in the most uninteresting way one could imagine. This obviously was an attempt to remain ultra-neutral, but the articles could have been written by a computer abstracting program. One was sbout the Palin appearance on the Saturday Night Live skit from last night, the other was about Robo Calls and Coleman's disdain for them, and negative attack ads. Coleman has obviously forgotten that he has taken negative attack ads to the heights of sleaziness over the last several months, but that wasn't even mentioned--possibly selective omission is the new commentary? The Palin skit was well done and very funny but one certainly couldn't get any idea of that from Martin's writing. There was not even a hint of any sort of human reaction in this two article demonstration of non-writing/non journalism. If this kind of writing becomes status quo on the blogs, they will probably become the next dinosaurs along with the newspapers. Bring back the edge, or at least make it sound as though a human wrote the article--even if androids are at the keyboard. There has to be an algorithm somewhere that could do this task.