How to Tell Good News From Bad

“the very impediments to newsgathering and transmission in years past, the difficulty of composing the words — manual typewriters, setting type by hand — and delivering film, the time it took for stories to reach the street, the intervals between newscasts and paper deliveries all reinforced a process of deliberation and second thoughts that once were ingrained in the communications industry. Now,” it adds, “it is journalism on the fly. There is barely a moment for reflection.”