Watching the flow of a news cycle can be interesting at times.
In an era of 24-hour media and instant gratification, the ebb and flow of what’s hot and what’s not is as unforgiving as the tide, and it doesn’t take much for the what-nots to be swept out into the sea in favor of something new and fresh.
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