We’ve Seen This All Before
4 min readDec 16, 2020
Reporters are interested in the now, what’s happening this day, this hour, this minute.
Sometimes there’s room to look back, to see how things started, or to shoot extra video showing where the truck that smashed into the crowd came from.
But, we mostly expect to see the “what happened” part right up front. That’s the whole point of news.
