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It isn't that big of a deal, at least for most stuff. In radio news I write a lot of stuff fairly early just to get a jump on things. Some stuff, like obits obviously, can be written pretty acurately and fairly well in advance. Other articles are more difficult but if you have a general idea of what is happening you can write a lot nad leave blanks for details. When it gets close to air time you might have to do a minor rewrite but it does help you make deadlines.

Now all of the above applies to fairly minor stories and not MSM kinda stuff. A lot iof the MSM stories are written in advance because they have an agenda and the agenda part its written first, the details filled in - or ignored as the case may be - just before airing.

Of course I have an agenda as well...conservative, hehehe...and write most of my stories from that. I did one last week whiel I was filling in on the air. Wrote a story about the dems having to deal with the ABA endorsing Alito. Mentioned that was gonna be a big hurlde for them to get around. Also mentioned that while the possibility of a filibuster seemed to be fading, several dems on the judiciary committee were tlaking about holding up the vote for a week...just because they could.

I don't have the story at hand but the last line included me mentioning the dems holding up a vote...just because they could. Made them sound obstructionist, not willing to work with the pubbies on the hearings. I got a lot of angry calls from dems about that...like I could care.

In any case I wrote a lot of that story well in advance...first in my head on the way to work, later hours before airing.

At least I'm up front about my conservative agenda though.

prisoner6

Yeah, I can see that, and I wouldn't hold what you're doing to the same standard though prisoner6... You aren't the AP wires, you know? Arguably the most powerful news organization on the planet is putting out stories many hours before they even happen is what is disturbing. Of course this wasn't anything big, talking about a White House Breakfast... maybe the writer wanted to catch some Zs so he chucked it out there early... but the implications that come with this is what bothered me. Most of our news comes from the AP wires, and these guys already have enough credibility problems without prewriting their stories. So again, it was more the practice that is concerning than this specific instance. This just allowed me to make the joke that Alito and Bush had breakfast in the middle of the night, etc... and then the opportunity to photoshop Bush sleeping while Seinfeld is on.

But, the "news" stories about the VFW Convention speeches in 2004 in Vegas WERE written BEFORE the speeches (by Kerry in particular!) were ever given.

Thus, the AP and other "news" writers IGNORED the many hundred VFW vets who walked out on Kerry, stood and turned their backs, boo'ed him, and rousing gave him a "bad" time.

BUT, because the "press release" (written before the speech ever occurred) "news story" IGNORED all of that , the REST of the country did NOT hear the real story.