Lazy-breaking news?
News is “instant” nowadays, right? We are in the accessible 24/7 broadband information age. “News as it happens” has been a media catch-cry for several years.
So I did chuckle this morning when seeing this “breaking” news about the end of daylight savings — four hours AFTER it actually ended.
When I was a teenager, working in a golf shop, the end of daylight savings was always a good day in the shop: golfers turned up early, and with time to spare, spent it in the shop and made extra purchases. And plenty of golfers who were regularly “last-minute” arrivals got to relax for a change (unlike the chaos at the start of daylight savings!).
Maybe back then they’d appreciate the 6am news in a “breaking” sense, but in 2008 that time delay — given the “instant” environment of news reporting — is actually noticeable.
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