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You're doing it wrong. Most breaking news isn't meant to be watched continuously. Most news is designed for people who are busy doing other things and checking
by radley 14y ago
You're doing it wrong.
Most breaking news isn't meant to be watched continuously. Most news is designed for people who are busy doing other things and checking in once in a while. Breaking means it's so new they haven't had time to summarize & package it for you, so it'll be rough and weird.
That's it. The reason it's repetitive is to sound fresh for the next guy who checks in.
If you're spending time watching it repeat, expecting something new to happen as you're watching, you're frankly doing it wrong.
- aristidb 14y agoWell, a lot of people are doing it wrong then.
- dllthomas 14y agoMaybe we need two channels, one that loops(ish) with the latest situation, and another that's just a feed of updates?
- austenallred 14y agoThere's no reason these need to be two channels; they're really two ways of sorting the same information. (I'm building something that I think solves that problem).
- uptown 14y agoYour second premise sounds similar to what Circa does from a news-app standpoint. Curated updates to stories you've designated that you're interested in following-up on.
- olefoo 14y agoSo the technical solution is to have our news reading environment be aware of which items we've seen, and only alert us when new information on a topic we've expressed an intent to follow comes in. So imagine that CNN tries to reinvent themselves after this weeks fiasco. They spend a bunch of time and money setting up their newsgathering operation to tag everything with metadata and provide special software to consume the tag feeds and manage users attention; gobs of customisation options, in depth access to the underlying data, not just for financial news, but also the analysis of breaking events and the public reaction thereto. Basically a Bloomberg Terminal, with a broader focus. And if they do all of that. They will continue to lose money to outlets that treat events as a cross between a circus-freak sideshow and a particularly bloody genre of morality play ( FOX and NYPost, as instances of the Grand Guignol approach to journalism ).
- majormajor 14y agoSBNation is pretty good about that with their separate blogs you can individually "subscribe" too and see notifications of new content for, and their commenting platform that keeps track of which comments you've already read. The latter feature would be spectacular to have on HN. Not having the site tell me which comments are new, and letting me navigate just to them, feels so archaic to me now.
- crusso 14y agoFOX and NYPost, as instances of the Grand Guignol approach to journalism It's always amusing how Fox is so popular to slam that even in an article where CNN is flamed for doing what they seem to do quite often - you have to go after Fox. Outside of the talking head shows on Fox, I find their reporting to be as good or better than CNN. I think it's the result of the accepted culture of attacking them because their talking head shows are to the right. They have to be better than the next channel because they're under more scrutiny.
- olefoo 14y agoAny news channel whose announcers are so visibly aroused by the prospect of bombing countries that they actively demonize has lost any claim to seriousness, sorry, that's the way it is.
- crusso 14y agoNot sure what specific incident(s) you're talking about, but are you saying that journalists who show bias in some way "lose any claim to seriousness"? If so, I can point to many examples of bias on all major news and media outlets.
- doktrin 14y ago> You're doing it wrong. Perhaps, but he's doing it as intended, and that's part of the problem. News outlets aren't incentivized to let their customers be on their merry way after 5 minutes. They're in the business of getting eyeballs on screens for the maximum duration possible.
- Evbn 14y agoYou are just wrong. Compare Headline News -- a constant loopy stream of Headlines to CNN. Don't blame CNN because you are bored so they tell you more stuff. Don't blame HN do being repetitive. Change the channel if you don't need the infom
- doktrin 14y ago>> You are just wrong....Don't blame CNN because you are bored...Change the channel if you don't need the infom So, you're saying CNN doesn't actually want their consumers to stay glued to the screen & news feed? Qualify that. This is about how they intend for their product to be consumed, not how consumers can get maximum utility out of the product.
- philwelch 14y agoYou'd think that, but they never step back and give an organized summary.