‘I left daily journalism at exactly the right time’

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But that’s where we are. We’re fighting over seconds that, for the vast majority of news users, are completely irrelevant. We’ve wrongly bought into some idea or practice built on obsessive competition combined with the joys of technological advancement – and we’ve overestimated the end result and the ensuing public good.

Perhaps the news executives making the decisions are so far in the thick of things that they’re not even asking those kinds of questions. Indeed, I wonder if some media members in the trenches don’t really see that they’re competing over seconds. They’re just competing. It’s not as if CNN had a clock telling them how long before Fox or MSNBC would report the story.