Digital Age of Media, information at the speed of light. It's a brave new world with no class or grace and truth is sacrificed in the name being the first to tell the tale....
from World Entertainment News Network
Editor & Publisher commented today (Wednesday), "If you watched the story of Heath Ledger's death explode chaotically across the Internet, with facts, errors, inconsistencies and confusions flying every which way, you may have concluded that in the new digital media's race to break stories in minutes, accuracy has been left in the dust." It warned that while in the past, journalists had hours to vet and craft a story, reporting now often "unfolds in real time."