While a magazine understandably wants to reap the financial benefits of having a major, deeply reported story only available on the newsstand, the idea of holding breaking news for print doesn’t easily mesh with the demands of the 24/7 online news cycle.
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Interesting how Rolling Stone attempted to build up hype, but the full McChrystal story was still published in full online before publication in print.
From Michael Calderone writing about Rolling Stone and McChrystal on Yahoo! News. More on how the story broke on Media Guardian.
