I just heard a commentator speaking of how Live-Blogging is a new form of writing skill. I suppose he is right. But for me, live-blogging holds very little interest. We all know that news stories are more informative once there has been time for a careful examination and verification of facts--so why rush to get it so fast? Even in the pre-digital era, for long-running stories, I preferred newsmagazines over newspapers, since newspapers necessarily had to contain a lot of repetition in each day's article.
Likewise, we all know that writing is better with editing...why bypass this process?
I think it is all false excitement...there aren't that many stories that we need to read about in actual real-time.
Likewise, we all know that writing is better with editing...why bypass this process?
I think it is all false excitement...there aren't that many stories that we need to read about in actual real-time.
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