On the political side of things, I remember lamentations during the campaigns about how the big investigative bombshells from newspapers seemed to always become public around midnight Eastern because the NYT, WaPo, et al wouldn't put those stories on the web until the print editions went to press. That seems to have changed just in the last few weeks.
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:30 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:58 AM, stannc <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On a recent Rachel Maddow show, Rachel lamented the fact that the recent >> news cycle has changed so that "breaking news" always seems to occur in the >> 5:00pm ET hour. This causes her staff to have to scrap the planned show for >> the day and cover whatever new news has broken. > > >> >> I thought of this when I saw the slide at the beginning of LSSC on Monday >> and it made me realize that I've just seen too many of those slides in >> recent years. <tvornottv%[email protected]> > > > When I did media workshops the instructors would stress knowing the > deadlines for who you want to target with your story - print and TV - in > order to make sure your story would get out that day. Inversely, if someone > wanted some time before a story hit the front page, they would make sure it > went public after deadline. It was a truism that bad news releases always > came out at 5 PM Friday so they would not make the news until Monday and > then they would be considered old news. > > That all is changing in the internet age. Cable news channels and news > websites no longer have a deadline. And shows like Rachel Maddow's can > retool in short time rather than wait until the next day. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
