Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The Speed of News

Piggybacking off of Shannon’s post about how news disseminated too fast can lead to embarrassing errors, I found an amusing cartoon from this Web site:



On the other hand, sometimes news doesn’t travel fast enough. I sat in traffic on the highway this morning for an hour. None of the news stations I scanned – not even the AM ones – had any traffic information. I figured it was a crash, and I was right, as I found out when I came to one of those electronic billboards. It would have been nice to know that two lanes of traffic were blocked on my route to work. I don’t have OnStar or any other newfangled technology to tell me the traffic. I ended up turning around and working from home.

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