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

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.