Loading ...It’s not that I’m insensitive to the speed issues between print and digital journalism. Yesterday on the BBC News site, I read that Charles Taylor, formerly president of Liberia and today exiled to Nigeria, had disappeared from his home before extradition on charges of crimes against humanity. In the newspapers, there was no mention of his disappearance; it was breaking news yesterday, so it was only online.
Today, the newspapers have dutifully mentioned that a probable war criminal is missing: “Liberia’s former leader vanishes days before extradition,” alerts the Guardian. And then I flip to the BBC site, once again. “Charles Taylor caught in Nigeria.”
So you see, I’m not insensitive to the speed argument. Nor, to be clear, is the Guardian, which leads the pack of English-language papers with online readers. But you can’t tuck the BBC site under your arm and take a stroll: not yet.
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It’s called a laptop Sal. I believe they sell it in that shop/temple you want to visit every time you’re within a 10k radius of it.
The printed press is yesterday’s news.
I was in Norway over the weekend, and the plane before mine had slid on the runway, so they had to shut down the runway the rest of the evening. Anyway, before even all the passangers had been taken off the plane, I was reading about it on a Norwegian news site, from a internet kiosk within the airport.
Tuck that under your arm.