Click here for an interesting piece from Slate's Rob Weintraub on Brett Favre and how the media safeguard his reputation even when he plays poorly.
It's a nice piece, and one that wouldn't get written elsewhere, but I have one minor quibble: it wasn't posted online at Slate until after 3:00 p.m. U.S. PST on Friday.
Even a Web small fry like me knows that traffic tails off beginning early on Friday afternoon in the East. Waiting until after 6:00 p.m. U.S. EST to post it means that it will go down the memory hole awfully fast --or even faster if Green Bay loses Sunday afternoon to Minnesota.
Yes, it's nice that the Web allows us to publish anytime without regard to traditional deadlines. But that doesn't mean that the old timelines don't still have some value. This piece should have hit the pages of Slate no later than Thursday afternoon.
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