Almost all pathologies arise from the screwed up incentive to instantly and completely satiate an attention spike event with wild speculation rather than enter a lifecycle relationship
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Every news story is a breaking news story until it’s actually over, but news outlets only slap on that label when updates are coming in faster than it takes a writer to write an account (example: if it takes 15m to write a straight-up account, but updates coming in every 10m)
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Within a single day they do but even that is not a fix; lotta people won’t check back in
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Guess I should note it can help if handled right: with the ability to update allowing for more limited and circumspect initial statements, but often that’s not what happens anyway.
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The Guardian kind of does this. They have 'Live' stories. This is one at the moment.https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jan/27/coronavirus-china-death-toll-climbs-to-80-with-more-than-2700-cases-live-updates …
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That’s not going to solve the problem of journalists being unable and/or unwilling to ask the important questions
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what do you think is missing from something like
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