Perspectives on the news
Ken Otterbourg of the Winston-Salem Journal writes about a photo in the Richmond Times-Dispatch of a sports event: Check out all those cell cameras in the bottom. This image -- or at least one approximating it -- will be sent and forwarded dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands of time, published if you will, before the T-D hits the streets, the TV station goes live or the Web site story gets posted. The result, news is nearly instant. Just one more challenge for newspapers and television and, yes, even the Internet.
Same day a few hours earlier, our own Doug Clark writes about this morning's (12:51 a.m.) finish to the Wake-Georgia Tech game, which occurred well past what should have been our deadline. Newspapers aren't always first with the news anymore. Information moves at the speed of light and is instantly available at your fingertips. But in this case, because I didn't stay up to see the end of the game, I learned the outcome first from my morning paper.
Both are right.
