Post-relevance News

Post-relevance News (type of news)
 * 1) when citizens or voters or taxpayers are unable to act on information because it was revealed after they needed it

Example:
 * when reporters agreed not to reveal unflattering information about 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, until after the campaign
 * when the National Bureau of Economic Research admitted in December, 2008 that the United States had been in a recession since December, 2007.