What’s missing from the news?

Matt Thompson wrote a thoughtful post about the four key parts of news stories, including the three that journalists usually don’t cover. My particular pet peeve: the absence of the longstanding facts.

In reality, these longstanding facts provide the true foundation of journalism. But in practice, they play second-fiddle to the news, condensed beyond all meaning into a paragraph halfway down in a news story, tucked away in a remote corner of our news sites.

(via waxy)

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