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The Press Adopted Linear Time
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This chapter considers the notion of news time. News producers, researchers, and observers agree that American life has become busier, with little time to spare. The time crunch seems to have led reporters and editors to focus on the real present instead of the modern tasks of gathering background, spotting trends, or ferreting out future problems. It is argued that the commitment to modern time made news producers resistant to new kinds of information practices and options for conceiving of time. The emergence of other media has been an important element in how the press became entrenched in its version of modern time. The main alternative to newspapers appeared at midcentury: television, a medium that broadcasts in real time and opens the possibility of a return to the realist present.
Title: The Press Adopted Linear Time
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This chapter considers the notion of news time.
News producers, researchers, and observers agree that American life has become busier, with little time to spare.
The time crunch seems to have led reporters and editors to focus on the real present instead of the modern tasks of gathering background, spotting trends, or ferreting out future problems.
It is argued that the commitment to modern time made news producers resistant to new kinds of information practices and options for conceiving of time.
The emergence of other media has been an important element in how the press became entrenched in its version of modern time.
The main alternative to newspapers appeared at midcentury: television, a medium that broadcasts in real time and opens the possibility of a return to the realist present.
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