The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get

(1): The longstanding facts
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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.

An interesting piece with which I basically agree; I’v noticed the problem of he absence of basic facts numerous times, especially on the 24-hour news shows. I’ve had the misfortune of tuning in a few hours after the breaking news was fist reported, and all I was fed was what had happened or come to light in the last hour or two, as if I was watching the whole time. Surely if you can repeat the same story every 15 minutes, you can give some background and context to it.