Much of what is discussed in the Digital Journalist is concerned with speed. This technology has the potential to allow us to deliver to the viewer the fastest, latest images from the Four Corners of the world. We suddenly have the ability to reclaim the relevance that television took from us. We can beat them at their own game. We can get a digital image up on the Internet before the networks have edited the tape, never mind found a slot for it.
Speed is good.
It keeps us up to date on the latest information. We can experience a story as it develops, and as importantly stay one step ahead of the censors. But speed at the cost of understanding is a spoiled commodity. Speed without compassion is a travesty of journalism. Speed should always be a means and never an end.