This isn’t really anything novel. But in our hyper-digital age, how information is framed often matters more than the substance of that information itself.

And one of the biggest lies that internet culture tells us is that something is only important and interesting if it is new. As someone whose day job is at a nonprofit newsroom, I have a front row seat to the consequences of that lie. Convincing anyone to read a story that is more than a week old is an uphill battle, the ideology of which is clear:... See more