I have a Google saved search on certain work related keywords that populate RSS feeds I then read in Inoreader. One called “Student finance chief outlines Georgia Match, Promise Scholarship and HOPE administration” caught my eye because I work on some Georgia Match stuff.

This article reads like a beat reporter attended the session and wrote a summary. My problem is I can’t seem to find corroborating information. Nothing on the House Education Committee web site. They seem to post their stuff after the legislative session. I looked in Google searches, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and need to recall some of the lesser state and Atlanta papers to see if I can find anything about that committee meeting and what was discussed.

I’m of two thoughts:

1. If there’s not a person being assigned to this stuff, then an AI covering and elevating things like this that might otherwise get missed because no one is doing is great. My general impression is the journalism companies are looking to layoff people as their way to profitability, so I’m not sure that’s why I can’t find people doing this stuff.
2. I don’t know anything about this website to trust they are have controls to ensure the integrity of what they publish. And a push to AI for journalism in general means a loss of jobs for PEOPLE. So, it sucks that the ONLY source is this. I’d like to compare the coverage of a handful of articles.

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