President Mahmud Ahmadineyad launched the first Spanish-language channel produced in the Middle East to "limit" the actions of "dominance seekers." IJNet checked it out.
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Journalism is an art, not science. Sure, a machine or an algorithm can be coded to do things in a certain way, but unless it has some true intelligence and a taste for artistic senses, it always possess only the qualities of a MACHINE. Which are pretty much redundant. It's not the 99% of the time of recycled material that matters. It's that 1% of innovation sparks that come and totally flip a story around.
Unless machines think like people, they will always be machines. And people will always have the POTENTIAL of turning out better output.