Real time publishing is essential if you have a competitive SEO requirement. Google has got good enough that seconds count for web publishing operations. Static page-based content management is also anathema to a content services approach, which is needed for multi-channel, reuse, and dynamic page generation (and is the emerging requirement in content management systems).
In other words you're a troll or you don't know how web publishing works :p I'm talking about major news and media organisations. Immediacy has always been a key differentiator in news and financial data for example (look at trading co's who pay a fortune for systems that will shave milliseconds off getting figures from exchanges). A publishing system that isn't at least near real-time isn't a fit for very many use cases (most commercial publishing, anything with UGC etc).
