Looking at news historically,\u00a0like pre-telegraph historically, where people would hop on a horse and ride out\u00a0to relay some news … “first” might be measured in days or weeks, I can certainly see the advertising advantage of being first by such a large margin.\u00a0But as communication technology advanced, being “first” gives us\u00a0“DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”: something that is just outright wrong because\u00a0accuracy was sacrificed\u00a0for speed (well, and proof that bias in reporting is not a new phenomenon … the Chicago Tribute was hardly complimentary of Truman throughout the election run-up).<\/p>\n
Now that ‘first’ is by a few minutes (there are people at each news org monitoring\u00a0other<\/em>\u00a0news outlets, and a few minutes later a story will be up on NYT saying “WaPo reports …”), yeah I don’t much care who was first. I’d rather hear the\u00a0real story once than waste time hearing\u00a0twelve iterations of an emerging story.<\/p>\n There’s some egotism to “needing” to hear news first.\u00a0Israel decides to launch\u00a0missiles\u00a0at Gaza … I feel bad for the people getting bombed, but it isn’t like I can ring up\u00a0Rivlin and tell him to stop. I’m not a doctor who can go out and start treating the injured. Apartment building burns down in London. Still not a doctor,\u00a0don’t have\u00a0a whole lot of fire fighting experience,\u00a0and I’m a thirteen hour flight from\u00a0handing out water and blankets to the displaced. Sure, there are actions I can take — donate money, contact my elected representatives, volunteer talents I\u00a0do<\/em>\u00a0have that provide value remotely … but I can do any of those things three hours later too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking at news historically,\u00a0like pre-telegraph historically, where people would hop on a horse and ride out\u00a0to relay some news … “first” might be measured in days or weeks, I can certainly see the advertising advantage of being first by such a large margin.\u00a0But as communication technology advanced, being “first” gives us\u00a0“DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”: something that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}