Who'd have thunk it?
Databases like LexisNexis are also feeling the pinch as the Digital Media War rages on.
With shrinking staffs and less legacy news being produced databases that rely on original material from newspapers are practically starving for material.
But the databases themselves are to share in the blame for their emaciated state.
As papers began to cut back, databases did little to nothing to find other sources of news to archive and continued to exclude wire reports (and, as we've been learning in class, even wire services have been cutting back.)
A set of scholars even concluded that a Google search uncovers just about twice the number of sources that LexisNexis produces for a given topic.
Funny, I never took the time to think that databases were also on this sinking ship of an industry.
But this does go to support a hypothesis of mine: Google is some sort of info god.
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