What we think about it:
ADarwinAward - "Pretty random timing for this article, seeing as the abduction happened over a year ago and she was rescued 11 days later. Her abductor was sentenced 3 months ago."
ProtoplanetaryNebula - "I think the slow news day thing really does apply. Sites are under pressure to post every day, so this is literally what they do. I think they must have a bank of stories waiting to be published and when nothing else is going on, they are."
ArtOfWarfare - "I’m pretty sure most news organizations do that. They write stories and then decide whether to publish them now or add them to a queue."
Scoimies - "Reminds me of the fact that companies have articles already written for the passing of famous celebrities so they can publish them as soon as news of their death comes out. For example, you know TMZ absolutely has their RIP Kim Kardashian article ready lol"
LonelyGuyTheme - "Called obituary, obituaries, or obits."
Scoimies - "I always thought the obituary was the specific thing put out by the family into a newspaper to notify the masses of their death. Would a random newspaper unaffiliated with the dying persons party publishing news that a celebrity died be considered an obituary?"
of-no-renown - "an obituary is any article about a person's recent death. the 'obituary section' is usually written by friends or family, but a frontpage article about a dead celebrity qualifies too."
diakked - "Agreed, and if it doesn't discuss the person's life it's just a "death notice.""
M1N1wheats009 - "Depends on the organization. Local news organizations have a CMS, or Content Management System to prevent content-dumping all their stories at once. Not necessarily “waiting” to wait… ex: if you dump all your content at 11:43am, some of your stories get buried in the clutter of all the other posts. If you time them out (every 15/30 min or every hour or two) you increase traffic, which generates more revenue (lots of reasons… as sales, site traffic, etc). It’s a multi-tiered reason why they aren’t posted immediately, but that’s for local news organizations. These online platforms definitely do shitpost to shitpost."
steamwhistler - "Former reporter here. Can confirm news organizations have stories queued up in various states of completion due to the business need to always be publishing stuff. There are also different versions of big stories pre-written, like for either team winning the Superbowl etc. For a more complicated or serious matter this would not usually be the case."
katsu_kare_raisu - "Like YouTubers and some influencers."
hibikikun - "My local news station is still airing field "holiday" segments over a decade later. I'm pretty sure some of those reporters aren't even alive anymore."
realcanadianbeaver - "Yeh, they had to ask the local station to stop using one set of stock footage, as the paramedic in them had committed suicide the year before."
NeonMagic - "I wish news sites would have a writers strike."
PluggedTheBluePill - "That would be the greatest strike ever."
SubGeniusX - "It's because of the "Sound of Freedom" movie..."
msnmck - "Child abduction and trafficking are extra hot right now"
ThatDinosaucerLife - "The #2 movie at the Box office last weekend was a right wing propaganda film glorifying a vigilante stopping a child sex trafficking ring single-handedly. the lead actor has been talking QAnon shit at press events."
your______here - "I think it's less that the topic is child trafficking, and more that QAnon's central conspiracy theory is that Democratic politicians, Hollywood executives, and health authorities (everyone that disagreed with Trump about anything, basically) are collectively engaging in cannibalistic child sex trafficking. QAnon can then push for awareness about child trafficking while immediately following up with calls to action against the Democratic politicians they claim are responsible for it."
