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After hearing yesterday’s news about Matthew Perry, I anticipated having to work on the “time-sensitive” story about his cause of death. I looked on the assignment board and was somewhat relieved it had already been taken. After all, the medical examiner doesn’t quite know what exactly led to his death. There was a part of me that wanted to write the story because he was my age, and he was very much a part of my 20s.
Then I moved to the other stories that were labeled “time-sensitive.” Were they stories about medical breakthroughs? The updates about the surge in COVID? No, there were four stories about daylight savings time ending. Is that news? No, not really.
I know that if I still worked in the news industry I would probably have to do a story about how people are looking forward to the extra hour of sleep that they would get that weekend. Then there would be another story about how to prepare for the change in circadian rhythm. The health reporter would interview a doctor about how the morning sunlight can prevent depression.
