Therein lie its value and its appeal. It is timely, accurate and quick to digest. Example is the Edsa People Power II coverage, wherein we got the stories out within minutes after they happen. Web news is more akin to the newsgathering operations of an international news agency, where competition was counted in seconds. It was fast but accurate and well-written news just the same.
Stories usually get very long in the old media.
Here in the Web, there are other considerations, technical mostly, such as the number of kilobytes that can be accommodated per page. We want the downloading of pages to be easy. At the same time, we want to put in enough meat in the story to make it worth your while to read. Journalists in the old media usually came to work in the afternoon and stayed late into the evening. With the demands of online news, changing shifts are a necessity.