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Is the point to demonstrate how trivial some stories end up being three months later? Or... I'm not sure I get the purpose of covering the introduction of the O

Is the point to demonstrate how trivial some stories end up being three months later? Or... I'm not sure I get the purpose of covering the introduction of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 three months after it has started killing people.

WheatM 4y ago
DubiousPusher 4y ago
The point isn't that no news is timely. Some obviously is such as the spread of a highly transmissable disease. But a lot of news is not timely. In fact a lot of news is misreported precisely because it is reported faster than a sober analysis can be applied. Worse are the bevy of stories which are reported before it can be realized they aren't even stories at all. Despite this the news media has increasingly invested in the "breaking news" format for everything.
bee_rider 4y ago
I don't have access, so this is speculation. But I'd hope that, with their publication cadence in mind, instead of just announcing that Omicron exists they'd be able to talk about the emergence of new variants generally and what that will mean for the overall trajectory of the pandemic.
atoav 4y ago
Getting the latest thing that you feel the need to prepare for to survive a little bit longer tha the person next to you is a great use for news — but hear me out, you can also inform yourself about an issue that has already happened and pull real useful knowledge from that. E.g. a in depth analysis of why the chip supply crisis started does not need to be totally up to date, it needs to instead make very complex topics understandable in a good way, by having a long term look on certain actors, industries etc.
- pwinnski 4y ago
  Sure, and I subscribe to a number of newsletters that dig into issues like that regularly. I just didn't see enough information on the linked site to make it clear that is what was happening. My question was an honest one: if the point is to demonstrate that the rush to fill a 24-hour news cycle is unhealthy, then great! But the selection of articles seems to focus on the latest news just the same, with a delay of three months. It seems both too late to report on Omicron from a preventative point of view, and maybe also too early for an in-depth look back, especially in April when issue #45 was published with an article entitled "The arrival of Omicron." If you want to look back in depth, maybe focus even earlier than three months ago. And I you want to focus on current news, well, I'm still not sure the point. I'm getting a lot of mockery here for a bare link to a site that doesn't explain itself well. The rush to judgment might suggest that you all need to engage in a bit of delayed gratification, rather than piling on. At least I poked around enough to notice particular article titles and publication dates.

WheatM 4y ago

DubiousPusher 4y ago

The point isn't that no news is timely. Some obviously is such as the spread of a highly transmissable disease. But a lot of news is not timely. In fact a lot of news is misreported precisely because it is reported faster than a sober analysis can be applied. Worse are the bevy of stories which are reported before it can be realized they aren't even stories at all. Despite this the news media has increasingly invested in the "breaking news" format for everything.

bee_rider 4y ago

I don't have access, so this is speculation. But I'd hope that, with their publication cadence in mind, instead of just announcing that Omicron exists they'd be able to talk about the emergence of new variants generally and what that will mean for the overall trajectory of the pandemic.

atoav 4y ago

Getting the latest thing that you feel the need to prepare for to survive a little bit longer tha the person next to you is a great use for news — but hear me out, you can also inform yourself about an issue that has already happened and pull real useful knowledge from that. E.g. a in depth analysis of why the chip supply crisis started does not need to be totally up to date, it needs to instead make very complex topics understandable in a good way, by having a long term look on certain actors, industries etc.

pwinnski 4y ago
Sure, and I subscribe to a number of newsletters that dig into issues like that regularly. I just didn't see enough information on the linked site to make it clear that is what was happening. My question was an honest one: if the point is to demonstrate that the rush to fill a 24-hour news cycle is unhealthy, then great! But the selection of articles seems to focus on the latest news just the same, with a delay of three months. It seems both too late to report on Omicron from a preventative point of view, and maybe also too early for an in-depth look back, especially in April when issue #45 was published with an article entitled "The arrival of Omicron." If you want to look back in depth, maybe focus even earlier than three months ago. And I you want to focus on current news, well, I'm still not sure the point. I'm getting a lot of mockery here for a bare link to a site that doesn't explain itself well. The rush to judgment might suggest that you all need to engage in a bit of delayed gratification, rather than piling on. At least I poked around enough to notice particular article titles and publication dates.