Capitalism 1, Democracy 0

Now that that Obama guy is going to be US president, Maureen Dowd has to write about other stuff. Her usual disdain is focused this time on the outsourcing of journalism jobs to India. The arguments against having the Pasadena, CA, news reported from India aren’t exactly elusive, and the comments on the piece demonstrate a general consensus on this being bad.

This isn’t an I-told-you-so, exactly, but I will observe that the precedent was set on this long ago. Newspapers operate in a capitalist system, and in the strictly economic sense that capitalists love to invoke, the importance of journalism to democracy or community or whatever else is irrelevant.