If news media started reporting on stories the way I do blogchains (series of updates as the story evolves) with an option to follow the story over its natural lifecycle, I think it would basically solve all the quality problems people complain about.
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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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