40 minutes ago, The New York Times Web site told us that “Senator Kennedy Has Malignant Brain Tumor.”
The page has a lot of background information about the bad news, the Kennedys, brain tumors … and you can read more than 150 comments (right now), including this one posted a few minutes after the news broke:
May 20th, 2008 2:11 pm
The term “malignant glioma” has no meaning.
Mr. Kennedy presumably has an astrocytoma, either of the highest grade, glioblastoma, or of intermediate grade, sometimes called anaplastic or malignant astrocytoma.
Statistically glioblastoma (glioblastoma multiforme)is the likely diagnosis, and the prognosis is dismal.
— J. P. Tift, Macon, GA
Amazing!
I don’t know what else tomorrow’s print papers can do.
Right now you can watch the cable news networks broadcasting live from the hospital.
The radio is telling the story.
The blogs are commenting on the news.
And thousands of Web sites are offering not just words about the Senator, but links to slide shows, infographics, videos, past interviews, bios, etc.
Not too much left for tomorrow.
But you will read tomorrow’s newspapers and they will present an old story on the front page as if they are breaking the news.
This, my dear, is THE problem.
(Picture by AP/Kenneth Lambert)
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