Yes, news in the Internet age is almost instantaneous but the frustrations can last a bit longer.
If you were reading TMV the past 30 minutes you may have noticed a major error in my GM post. In fact, that error was fixed in editing — but when it was posted there was a network issue at the moment it was posted and the post went up with the phrase that was removed. But that’s only part of it: the network issue locked us out of TMV totally for a while so no one on TMV could get in and fix it (eventually one of the TMV techs was able to get in, remove the phrase and fix the site).
It’s TMV’s policy to correct errors. The technical glitch mean that it wasn’t removed in editing and couldn’t be removed for nearly a half an hour. TMV regrets the error and the long time it took us to get the error out of the post.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.