I am a big fan of Fark.com, a news aggregator that collects submissions from around the globe with headlines and lead ins I only dreamed of writing while on the copy desk. But lately I've noticed that Fark and other news aggregation sites have been lagging, posting links to stories that are sometimes days, even weeks old.
I confess that I don't know the ends and outs of the daily goings on at Fark.com or any other news aggregation site because I don't work for one. But I know news and I know that the Internet is suppose to speed up the process of dissemination, not throw it back into the dark ages. A publisher once told me that the root of the word "news" is "new" so make it that way.
New software and technology are making it easier and easier to open the pipeline of news to the masses. Social media sites are passing along news faster than Clark Kent could pop back into the newsroom at the Daily Planet and report to Perry White.
All I'm saying is I want news from today .... not yesterday. That's history.
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Yeah, and they've done away with the telephone booths, too.
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