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.