Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 16:35:59 GMT
This News Is Late - The Latest News
Among the things I think about is the currency of news. How fresh is it. How old is it. How new is the news.
Every morning KDX airs six newscasts which have been compiled and posted within the last hour or two, and therefore are expected to report very recent events. But I wonder... where did they get those stories?
Experience is worth a nickle in this case, having once worked as news director of one station with Associated Press teletype while also working at a station with a United Press International teletypewriter. Many stories got reported on both news services, other stories were unique to one or the other. The TV station where I worked had both teletypewriters. Somebody somewhere was tracking down all the stories that got typed to continuously fed yellow paper.
One day I wondered if I could be a news reporter, so I walked up and down the hallway but nothing news worthy was happening in our radio building, so I looked out the front door where traffic was whizzing by but decided not to do a traffic report.
One New Years Eve I stepped out the door at 5-to-midnight with a wireless mic to report an end of year newscast, but all I could detect was traffic on the other side of a hill rushing on the highway, so I announced, "Traffic can be heard moving at normal speeds on a nearby highway and no accidents can be heard at this time."
My goal is to hire a clairvoyant and have a news team on the scene ten minutes before a story breaks.
Among the things I think about is the currency of news. How fresh is it. How old is it. How new is the news.
Every morning KDX airs six newscasts which have been compiled and posted within the last hour or two, and therefore are expected to report very recent events. But I wonder... where did they get those stories?
Experience is worth a nickle in this case, having once worked as news director of one station with Associated Press teletype while also working at a station with a United Press International teletypewriter. Many stories got reported on both news services, other stories were unique to one or the other. The TV station where I worked had both teletypewriters. Somebody somewhere was tracking down all the stories that got typed to continuously fed yellow paper.
One day I wondered if I could be a news reporter, so I walked up and down the hallway but nothing news worthy was happening in our radio building, so I looked out the front door where traffic was whizzing by but decided not to do a traffic report.
One New Years Eve I stepped out the door at 5-to-midnight with a wireless mic to report an end of year newscast, but all I could detect was traffic on the other side of a hill rushing on the highway, so I announced, "Traffic can be heard moving at normal speeds on a nearby highway and no accidents can be heard at this time."
My goal is to hire a clairvoyant and have a news team on the scene ten minutes before a story breaks.