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Books, novels, non-fiction. Low-latency mediums are usually event-based ("Breaking News! You can't guess what just happened!"). High-latency mediums have the
by brenschluss 10y ago
Books, novels, non-fiction.
Low-latency mediums are usually event-based ("Breaking News! You can't guess what just happened!").
High-latency mediums have the time to be understanding-based.
- phn 10y agoTiming is an interesting component. Time certainly helps to separate fact from fiction, and important facts from not-so important facts. However, I don't think it prevents bias, either from the authors own ideology or the status-quo at the time of writing. EDIT: Also, access to past facts can be limited as well. History being written by the victors, etc.
- WalterSear 10y agoI've seen this being used by people arguing that it is why they read the papers rather than get their news online, unaware that the articles are written to the same deadlines, so they are simply getting the same information, but late.
- VintageCool 10y agoRead news magazines that are published weekly (like The Economist) or monthly (like The Atlantic or Foreign Affairs).
- WalterSear 10y agoBoth of those are online.
- slyall 10y agoI think you are confusing: "we must get the story online within 5 minutes of it happening" and "Story written over a few hours/days/weeks and then published online"
- Symmetry 10y agoEven moving from daily to weekly publications will improve the quality of the information. There's usually still a distorting focus on outlier events but they can generally afford to take the time to provide more context and wait for more facts to come in.