Breaking news, or waiting?

Lost Remote links to Michael Rosenblum, an apparent despiser of those afraid to embrace new technology. Steve Safran at LR defends his views on the grounds that:

TV newsrooms are firing people every week. That’s the reality. That’s not the fault of technology, it’s the fault of people who don’t see the benefits of it and don’t adapt to it.

Rosenblum writes in his post, Breaking News:

About 10 years ago, when The New York Times was first starting NYTimes.com, most of the newspaper’s senior staff were nervous about the web. They did not feel anything should appear on the website until it had already been published in the paper. Of course, the paper only comes out once a day, and that is directly antithetical to the notion of ‘immediacy’ for an online site. It took the newspaper years to come to accept that the web came first, the paper followed.

Newspapers were the first ones hit by the impact of the web, but now it is coming to television as the web goes to video. Yet even among our own clients, some of whom are local TV news stations; they can only see the web as a place to put stories after they have aired on their programs.

I know it’s a long quote, but important to note the NYTimes website is much more advanced than most. I also love a bit of thought provocation, so with post titles like Why TV News Sucks, he gets added to my scanner.