I was reading the story about the double murder in Randwick and was struck by this part of the online story at SMH:

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Media organisations are now wanting the public to do all the hard work, as well as using Facebook and Myspace, instead of doing to hard work themselves.

And the same media organisations are the ones who want to start charging for content. If their content is behind paywalls, how will they be able to outsource journalism?