The world is becoming more automated. The Wall Street Journal is even trying to automate the news. It’s got a program that reports on the stock price of companies and creates a news article from it. Although this might make things cheaper and faster for the newspaper, it’s not a long term solution. It’s not a very interesting read, lacks creativity – the hallmark of great writing – and if brevity is the goal why not just read the raw data? Automation can only go so far, especially in the news