Should publishers outsource journalism?

Perhaps by now you've read the story of the news website publisher in my hometown of Pasadena, Calif. who has outsourced his site's newswriting to India. The story blew across the Web yesterday and today; in fact, I did a radio interview with the BBC about it late last night. I think the story's getting so much attention because it plays to journalists' fear that the global outsourcing epidemic that many of us have been covering for more than a decade now threatens our jobs. More ...