The new churnalism

A colleague from a TV news network was telling me the other day that its informal slogan was now “Never wrong for long.” News goes on air as it emerges in a furious competitive scramble, and then if it proves inaccurate it is supplanted rather than corrected. That, I guess, is what is meant by the new “churnalism.” So intense is the churn that nothing has much weight.

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