I follow the Bongino Report

Dan Bongino Says Traffic Surge to His Drudge Report Competitor Forced a Last-Minute Server Upgrade 

What is the appeal of the site? It’s a conservative news aggregator in the vein of Matt Drudge’s popular Drudge Report, but Bongino is quick to point out he and his team aren’t trying to copy Drudge in every way. His aggregator, for instance, will highlight almost exclusively right-leaning, conservative and libertarian outlets. It won’t ever link to pieces at the Washington Post or New York Times, he said, “unless it’s to make fun of them.”

Morning update via Ace

• **Sunday Bloody Sunday: Another Cop Shot and Wounded in Sanibel Island, FL**
• San Antonio Police Officer Assassinated
• St. Louis Policeman Shot in the Face, Expected to Live
• Mad-Dog Mattis Mulled to Head the Defense Department
• Chutzpah: Schumer Demands Trump Nominate "Mainstream" Judges for SCOTUS
• Jug-eared Failure Will Criticize Trump "If Necessary," Meaning Every Damn Day
• After Destroying His Party, Sh*t-Midas Might Lead Effort to Rebuild It. Yes, Please!
• Will the Left Actually Incite a Civil War?
• LePen Sans Le Phone? Oui, Oui!!

Bu Norman mentions things not in the news.

That awful deal with the Iranian government regarding its nuclear weapons program has largely gone unmentioned since President Barack Obama announced it was done, even though that’s not the end of the story. ... even the United Nations admits that Iran’s recent inter-continental ballistic missile test violated any understanding of agreement ...

 

Obamacare is just as bad as ever, too, although that’s no longer news. By now the public knows that it won’t be getting an average $2,500 a year savings and won’t be able to keep its plans or doctors and that all the other promises that were made won’t be kept ...

 

Most of those Republican candidates also go unmentioned, of course, and judging by all the “Bernie” bumper stickers we’re seeing we think there’s more going in in the Democratic race than you’d know from reading the news.

In some cases the silence is becoming deafening.

How ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ became a ratings winner

Answer: by not providing news.

The news on “World News” can be serious and important, but the serious stuff is often fleeting. On a typical Tuesday broadcast in May, the lead story was a “breaking” report about a missing U.S. military helicopter in Nepal (the “breaking” element was unclear, given that the helicopter had been reported missing about 30 hours earlier). The second story was a report about a commercial jet’s “scary landing” (as a bold graphic labeled it) in Hawaii. The event produced no injuries, but the story did have the kind of visual element — video of a damaged plane — that made it compelling for “World News.”

The last quarter of the broadcast included amateur video of a man being extricated from a car involved in a crash, a home invasion caught on a security camera and footage of two men flying jet packs in Dubai.

You have to remember that TV programming is designed to deliver an audience for commercials.