Never let it be said news must be “new” — Charles Arthur October 31, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , trackbackCharles Arthur addresses the "isn't news meant to be new?" question, with reference to Brand, Osborne/Mandelson and more:
"I’ve seen criticisms saying “But everyone had ignored it until the Mail on Sunday ran its story - it was old news! It was nothing until they got onto it!”
Surprisingly, some of this came from journalists. The fact is, of course, that (in newspapers) “news is what the reader doesn’t yet know, but you can persuade them they want to”. Doesn’t matter if it’s ten minutes, ten days or ten years (even ten decades) old."
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