When Google News began in 2002, many saw it as the death of the newspaper. It had no human editor. Instead Google used and still uses a secret computer program that selects and displays news stories according to the reader's personal interests. More recently, Associated Press and Yahoo! have been publishing computerwritten articles. Both use special software to automatically produce stories about company financial results and sports reports — areas where the quality of writing is felt to be of secondary importance to the accuracy of the data.

　　Should we be worried about such developments? I think we should. One concern is that Fackbook, Google and other social media websites see journalism as a sideline, a way of putting people in front of advertisements. It isn't their primary function —

　　so if it stops making them lots of money, they're likely to stop doing it.

　　There's also a concern that computerwritten articles are not actually journalism at all, because what a human news team produces is actually quite complex. A wellwritten news story puts information in context, offers a voice to each side of an argument and brings the public new knowledge.

　　Though economics and speed of delivery mean readers will probably choose a computerwritten story over a carefully shaped article — at least for daily news — I don't think computers will be writing any indepth articles for a while yet.

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