All it needed was the word of mouth (and the rapid Internet news propagation) of the jam band infrastructure.
But Reuters, like the Dow Jones newswire (which grew out of the Wall Street Journal), has developed a huge business providing information to financial-services firms, for which rapid, accurate news is highly valuable.
George Stephanopoulos noted how intense and rapid the news cycle has become: "Everything is covered, all of the time," and said the most difficult part of the job was working through the sheer abundance of campaign emails and blog posts.
Another effort, Radio Sawa, or Together, proved more resilient since it started broadcasting two years ago with a combination of pop music and rapid-fire news broadcasts, much like AM radio fare in the United States.
Unfortunately, with the ubiquity of rapid-fire news without context on complicated issues like mental health, veterans are a group uniquely (and unfairly) singled out as broken and unstable, damaged by the horrors and experience of war.
The complicating factors this time range from varying standards of taste among different parts of the country and the rapid-fire news developments that continue unabated to logistical mix-ups and the inability to adequately gauge public opinion so soon after the attacks.
James Marsh's documentary about this sublime piece of audacity does full justice to Petit's vision, using interviews with the man himself and his crew, and using photos from the time, and dramatised reconstructions - there is evidently no home-movie record and no television footage, as this was before the age of rolling coverage and rapid-response news 'copters.
If Ms. Palin suffered in rapid-fire news media interviews in which she was the sole person in the spotlight, she fared much better at Thursday's debate, where half of the questions were posed first to Mr. Biden — which, in turn, meant that Ms. Palin had 90 seconds to prepare her answer or riposte.
Then again, I've also been sitting still for three hours watching rapid-fire news clips and drinking coffee.
Banksy has been stirring up a rapid-fire news cycle the past two days – even more so than usual.
