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Transcript: Interview: Matthew MacInnis discusses the Harvard Crimson's choice to have past editions retyped in Cambodia for digitized archiving
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- July 24, 2001
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Interview: Matthew MacInnis discusses the Harvard Crimson's choice
to have past editions retyped in Cambodia for digitized archiving
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
A headline in today's Boston Globe declares: Harvard paper hires
cheap labor. And what occasions this insinuation of incorrect politics
on the part of the Harvard Crimson is a $45,000 contract to retype
editions of the student paper from 1873 to 1899. The point of the
typing job is to create a digitized archive of the old Crimson editions,
and the going rate for the typing: 40 cents an hour. Not in Massachusetts,
though; in Cambodia. Matthew MacInnis is ...