Jul 30 2009
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“ CNN changed the nature of politics and political reporting by compressing the time it took for something to happen… to half a day—whereas the newspaper news cycle, from next-day publication to day-after reaction, was 48 hours, and network television’s news cycle, from one day’s evening news to the next day’s evening news, was 24 hours. Politico brings the news cycle down to about 15 or 20 minutes.
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Vanity Fair Article by Michael Wolff about Politico.
Great summary of the challenge of the traditional “news.” It doesn’t make sense to read a print newspaper for breaking news anymore. The logical conclusion of all this seems to go to Twitter, right? Instant news.
