Most media organizations treat speed as a competitive advantage. We treat it as a temptation. Here is why.
The incentive structure of real-time publishing is well understood and well documented. Break the story first, maximize initial traffic, move to the next thing. The costs — accuracy, depth, context — accrue to readers, not to the publication that incurred them.
Duck Times publishes when we have something worth saying. This is not a capacity constraint dressed up as a philosophy. It is a genuine editorial position: that the value of a piece of writing is not its recency but its insight, and that insight takes time.