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by greenmana 2159 days ago
That's sadly the expectation these days. It's not like a journalist finds something interesting and spends a week or two writing a piece about it. The "news" should be up immediately so everyone can find out about it as soon as possible with some easily digestable tldr style, as it happens by the minute zero content reporting that the social media brain lives for.
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Before the internet devoured print, journalism segmented itself as follows:

- daily newspapers, which rushed important news into print as fast as possible (multiple daily editions, “hold the presses”)

- weekly news magazines, which focused on analysis of anything broadly newsworthy.

- monthly special interest magazines which combined narrow focus with in-depth coverage (Foreign Affairs, Byte)

Broadcast journalism largely copied the format - daily news (Walter Cronkite) and weekly analysis (60 Minutes, Face the Nation).

The dominant low brow weekly print news magazines (Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report) refused to change formats are are gone. The middle & high brow weekly magazines survived Slate and Salon just fine; we shall see what the likes of Vox and The Intercept and Pro Publica mean for their fate.

Meanwhile, simple food recipes are accompanied by narcissistic ramblings and videos that take a good 10 minutes to get past just to get to the point.
There are tons of sites on the Internet that are just recipes if that's what you're looking for. Likewise don't go to The New Yorker and expect things laid out as a bulleted list.