Why does the news feel faster, while we seem to know less?

Four breaking stories before breakfast. By lunch, two had changed and one had quietly disappeared. Knowing it sooner isn't the same as knowing more.

Speed used to be the newsroom's problem. Now it's ours. We get the first version of every story, the one with the most guesses in it, and we form opinions before the facts settle. The correction rarely travels as far as the original.

Maybe the fix is a delay we choose for ourselves: read the alert, then wait a day before deciding what it means.