"We've never had this proliferation of train-wreck celebrities. I mean, we have this preponderance of reality-show everyday schlumps making headlines," says Ken Sunshine, a New York-based publicist who represents Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Morgan Freeman and Jon Bon Jovi.

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By observing the global flow of news online, Cornell computer scientists have managed to track and analyze the "news cycle" - the way stories rise and fall in popularity.

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Chuck Todd: "Then why won't you spell out the consequences that the Iranian people..." President Obama: "Because I think that we don't know yet how this thing is going to play out. I know everybody here is on a 24-hour news cycle. I'm not. OK?"

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Slow news cycle and tabloid journalism leave satirists grasping at straws, old news to get viewers/traffic

In the wake of the hotbed of news that was the last two weeks, what with the Democratic and Republican national conventions and VP announcements, a lull in the news cycle has left satirists reeling.

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Looking across the ads, there has been no unifying message save for the fact that Barack Obama is bad (and even that doesn't always shine through -- calling him popular and running footage of people cheering for him doesn't necessarily make for the strongest attack), and there ha …

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Think back to 1999 when then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush unveiled his presidential exploratory committee with a showy presentation in Austin. The next day The New York Times published a modest 900-word story on Page 14.

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