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The idea of non-linear programming of accessing news is not new.
Up until the late 1990s, one could use the telephone to dial-a-news, 2UE's news bulletin. Accessing the bulletin was random and not on-the-hour.
Today, it's through phone apps, youtube, the news provider's news site whether audio and/or video, radio and/or tv.
It follows that accessing news at random times or as the article said "non-linear" is not new. What's new is the diversity of accessing of news at random times.
Thank you,
Anthony of logical and thinking Belfield
Mainstream radio news stations have only themselves to blame for their declining influence.
Long gone are the days when listeners could expect balance in radio news and current affairs. The ABC Workers' Collective led the charge to the Left in the 1970s, followed to varying degrees by the FM stations and 2SM in the new millennium. 9Radio remains the sole mainstream radio station on the Right, although it has moved from Right to Centre-Right recently with the departures of Alan Jones, George Moore and Steve Price.
Inevitably that industry-wide political shift created a vacuum that Right-wing online publishers (the ones lambasted by the Establishment as 'Far-Right') have filled in no time.
Yet they all fail the fundament test of any media news outlet: to present all sides of controversial issues, so that their listeners can draw their own conclusions.
A pox on all their houses.