I get why they exist, but twenty tiny updates and three “what we know” boxes often leave me less clear on what actually changed. Most of the time I would rather wait an hour for one reported story. The exception is a real safety emergency.
I get why they exist, but twenty tiny updates and three “what we know” boxes often leave me less clear on what actually changed. Most of the time I would rather wait an hour for one reported story. The exception is a real safety emergency.
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I disagree on this one. During a court ruling or a budget vote, the sequence matters and the finished article often flattens it. I want the live notes, then the clean story later.
That is fair. A vote is one of the cases where the order really is the story. I mostly mean the blogs that turn “nothing new yet” into four separate updates.
My complaint is less the format than the missing timestamps on corrections. If an early update was wrong, tell me when it changed instead of silently rewriting the box.