John Baeyens

Cnet’s editor Rex Baldazo has been caught.
Who wer those people who believed nothing fundamentally is changing? That the US and certainly the EU have an academic advantage to build on….
Seems to me we are avidly defending someting that has been lost anyway…. better check your marks.

“… with Q2 it appears my monthly article budget will be slashed dramatically. We’re talking somewhere in the 40% range. Unfortunately article fees are the biggest discretionary items in our budgets so whenever they need to find a place to cut these are the biggest targets…… And it gets worse. I hate to have nothing but bad news in this email, however they (they = TPTB) [The Powers That Be - Ed.] want me to try outsourcing some of our content. So we are currently negotiating a trial period with an outsource editorial firm in India (yes, India). They will provide a certain number of Builder articles over the next couple months. That will further reduce the number of freelance articles we purchase in Q2. The India contract is just a 2-month trial so I don’t know at this time whether it will affect the number of articles we purchase in Q3. I’ll try to keep everyone in the loop as we move forward on this effort.”

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