re: #288 Sol Berdinowitz
This is what the 24-hour rule is about…news agencies do not have one, they just repeat whatever scraps of information they pick up…
News agencies can’t have 24-hour rule, or they’d risk getting scooped. Understand that on this point there’s never been any ‘golden period of media prudence’ and in a free press society there never will be. For a news outlet, keeping up with important stories and breaking new aspects of them is is of crucial importance, it is something they cannot afford not to do.