There's more stuff they could report on, but it either doesn't advance their ideological agenda or doesn't interest their audience and doesn't get them clicks.

There is not enough happening to sustain a 24 hour news cycle

There is, they just focus on stupid shit. They should be chasing down and harassing corrupt politicians and billionaires paparazzi style 24/7. They wouldn't though because they're not on our side.

or crimes from 800lbs a way

"What radicalized you?"

Those 800lbs criminals I saw on the 24h news shows. I never thought they'd be a threat but now I'm afraid of the immigrants and transgender folk because one of them could be them 800lbs criminal type coming to eat my dogs and cats!

What ive always found crazy about the 24 hour news cycle is how little information is in there.

For a while I watched msnbc all day, just to have something on in the background.

In a day they would cover maybe 6 stories, just over and over and over. Here’s some new talking head to give their take, it’s effectively identical to the take the last 5 talking heads gave.

I stopped watching it because I realized that in a given day I was maybe getting about 20 minutes of information on repeat.

The channels have time, they could give complex and nuanced discussions around the 6 interesting things that happened that day, they could expand their coverage to the other 100 or 1000 interesting things that happened. But everyday they find the 6 stories that will lead to the most eyeballs watching the most ads and hammer them.

Because the Internet wouldn’t have done that eventually anyway.