The instantaneous nature of the internet is one of the single biggest contributors to the low-quality nature of news content today, and in my opinion, needs to

The instantaneous nature of the internet is one of the single biggest contributors to the low-quality nature of news content today, and in my opinion, needs to be rethought. The reason is that publications no longer have the benefit of the doubt when they publish something wrong. If a story with a malicious source runs, that publication can't argue that they were duped by a bad source. The community will automatically accuse them of pushing fake news, regardless of whether or not it was intentional. The media no longer has any benefit of the doubt due to the intense political opposition. Also contributing to this is a publication's desire to be first to run a breaking story. This creates a scenario where a publisher has to decide between waiting for additional sourcing to corroborate a big story or risking losing out to a competitor who may run the story first. It's one of the main reasons that I try not to actively support Twitter-driven journalism and instead put my journalism dollars towards publications that do long-form writing that takes time and patience to produce. The late-breaking Twitter world is just too often a Kobayashi Maru situation for publications.