What a refreshing response from Obama! The US president was asked yesterday why it had taken him a couple of days to condemn executives of the insurance firm AIG for taking bonuses after ruining the company. He answered: “It took a couple of days because I like to know what I am talking about before I speak.” We in the media might learn from that. Reporters might be more fulfilled if they were allowed to be more considered; if they were asked to do less but do it better; if they were encouraged to exercise judgment about what really counts. But it won’t happen, of course, when the demand is for ever more “content” delivered ever faster. So on we’ll twitter.