This is my effort to explain why the dissemination of information is still so slow in this electronic age.
In addition to the point I've often made that the human brain still processes information at the same speed it always did and that it still takes three or more exposures for the information to register, there's the fact that while our communication on the blogs on the internet is almost instantaneous, media that are produced for formal distribution undergo an arduous time-consuming process, involving many technical individuals and many steps between the initial idea and its completion in a well-timed segment designed for repeated consumption by the general public.
Time, indeed, seems to be the crucial element. In order for programs to fit into a specific time-slot, they have to be rehearsed, often times over and over. And the script, which has to be written by someone, and then read at a certain pace, has to be co-ordinated with lighting and sound readings, etc. It's all so much more complicated than my typing here on the blog where the only impediment seems to be that the internet connection sometimes times-out before we have finished typing a thought.
Obviously, the transmission is so much quicker than the creation and here there are no intermediaries to make minute adjustments.
Not only does it still take a long time for people to gather information, write it up, get someone to agree that it's valid, find the proper format, and get it distributed at the time when it is going to be most effective, but there also has be adequate time for it to be digested.
So, I'd argue, for example, that the info on Kerry's war against BCCI is coming along at just about the right time. No doubt the shrub's people have been waiting for this shoe to drop. Maybe they thought they could drown it out be the VietNam protest stuff. Who knows?
What I do know is that the more I learn, the gladder I am that it's not Howard Dean who is going into the lists against these people. We are messing with some BAD dudes here. The last thing they want in the White House is a former prosecutor.