"When the only sources of news were the wire services and a few big papers, it was enough to keep writing stories about how the president met with someone" -- Wire services produce thousands of articles everyday from all over the world but sadly only 20% of the content that moves on the wire is ever published. Papers have a believe that their audience is only interested in who the President met with. I don't think its new news that we need we just need better methods for getting the interesting stuff out