"Rolling news" isn't journalism
As Charlie Brooker said, it's just "Look! LOOK!!" with no analysis or context.
There was an interesting interview earlier this week with a journalist who said that where governments used to have a "theme" for the week, it became one a day, and now it's one in the morning, one in the afternoon & probably another before we all go to bed.
He also pointed out that if the Cuban Missile Crisis had had "rolling news", we'd have all been fucked.
(, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 11:12, Reply)