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"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year"

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“The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year” lands with the weary clarity of someone who’s watched the media treadmill speed up and never slow down. Coming from Mary Hart - a face synonymous with entertainment news - the line isn’t a lofty diagnosis so much as an insider’s sigh: the job didn’t just get harder, it got structurally different.

The intent is pragmatic, almost managerial: to name a professional reality that audiences often treat as invisible. But the subtext is sharper. “Timely” sounds neutral, even virtuous, yet it masks a system where speed is confused with value. In entertainment media especially, being first frequently matters more than being right, and being present matters more than being thoughtful. Hart’s phrasing avoids moral outrage; that restraint is the point. She’s not sermonizing. She’s normalizing the tension as a constant, which hints at how thoroughly the industry has internalized it.

Context does the heavy lifting. Hart’s career spans the shift from scheduled broadcasts and gatekept exclusives to the always-on churn of cable, the web, and social platforms where rumors metastasize in minutes. In that ecosystem, “news” expands to include micro-updates, reactions, and semi-confirmed fragments designed to keep the feed warm. The pressure isn’t just deadlines; it’s perpetual performance under surveillance, with competitors, audiences, and algorithms all demanding immediacy.

Her line reads like a small sentence with a big admission: the medium’s pace is now part of the message, and it’s exhausting.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hart, Mary. (2026, January 16). The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-pressure-to-be-timely-with-news-has-increased-104856/

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Hart, Mary. "The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-pressure-to-be-timely-with-news-has-increased-104856/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-pressure-to-be-timely-with-news-has-increased-104856/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Mary Hart (born November 8, 1950) is a Entertainer from USA.

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