D: All Things Digital Conferences
This is not about our slow-footedness on the Web, but our right to publish on a schedule we chose. To me, this was really a transitional moment. We’ve had fan sites that have published the text of some stories, but what these two big media organizations did was really off the charts. They took something that was in a prepublished form, sent out to other media organizations with specific restrictions, and just put it up.
— Eric Bates, executive editor of Rolling Stone, referring to the incident last week in which both Time.com and Politico published Rolling Stone’s story on Gen. Stanley McChrystal–in its entirety–before RS had a chance to publish it.