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by tjoff 2928 days ago
How is nightly news critical? Worst case, watch it 20 minutes later instead?
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markbnj 2928 days ago
Or you've already read the details of every story on the net hours earlier.
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r00fus 2928 days ago
It's not mission critical except for stickiness/adherence.

Arguably it could be used as a guaranteed self-marketing platform (in the intimate/most core sense - you can't watch if you don't have Netflix so people will just think of it as NetflixNews).

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AckSyn 2928 days ago
Believe it or not, a lot of people still use local tv/news for entertainment or information (of local news).

(Near) realtime would be important for emergencies, as rare as they are.

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tjoff 2927 days ago
I'm not questioning that and it doesn't imply that an outage would be a critical event.

Yes it would be embarrassing and it would be an inconvenience, but nothing worse than what happened today.

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