Reductio ad absurdum

[captainsblog]

This is what our news media has reduced itself to: I clicked on a breaking headline stating "NY judge denies request for special prosecutor in sex assault case vs. Dominique Strauss-Kahn", and got precisely this:



Ninety-three characters, counting the dateline and the spaces. 

Congratulations, mainstream media.  You are now less relevant than a Tweet.

Comments

[drbear.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's probably off an AP feed. They will, in the case of breaking news, send out a one-sentence item, then follow up a minute later with a full story. You just saw part of the process. (old newspaperman talking)

[cafemusique.livejournal.com]

I saw something similar yesterday when searching for news on Jack Layton's death.

I first saw tweets citing CBC Television, but it was at that time so early that the CBC didn't yet have an article on their website (and I could not find news of his death yet on Google News). Several minutes later, I came across a similar-length post with something like "layton-obituary" in the URL...but it was a "get the news out, then we'll finish writing the story" thing, I assumed.