Since everything is now observed/broadcasted/published in real-time, every development of any current event is BREAKING NEWS. But even if not breaking, certain

Since everything is now observed/broadcasted/published in real-time, every development of any current event is BREAKING NEWS. But even if not breaking, certainly important. This boils down the current style of giving a long-form article (story!) to every new piece of information. And then to top it off sometimes a random smattering of these tidbits and factoids get crumpled together into a ball of front page articles, with "amazing production value". Big 4K pictures, a 3-4 paragraph intro, a personal touch, namedroppings. What's missing is "obviously" what social science is supposedly about. Models, hypotheses, data, and picking the best one. Sure, articles provide this in a very crude form, via stories, appeals to some authority (when they cite/interview a random Professor of X at University of Y, who of course happens to be the Random Dude Z Chair), sometimes there are even a few graphs too! However, it seems the main function of established media these days is to try to follow what's going on in the world and establish a record, ask questions, try to look/peer into the nasty machine of contemporary politics and power, scratch the surface, kick the tires, and so on. They are not really here to interpret and explain it.