The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Source: Selling an Agreed Version in Time, 30 Dec 85
-- Thomas Griffith, (Dec 30 1915-2002), US writer, editor; He worked for Time Inc. for 30 years and was known in the organization as the house liberal; wrote The Waist-High Culture, 1959.