Oh, there are plenty of "digests" and "summaries" that will suggest news targets in a given day, and tell me what's top of their list. But it's a capital mistake to assume they've done enough work to get the real information. Often, they haven't, and it's the "digest" sources that tend to ignore the "24 hour" rules. More importantly, it's sometimes the stories they aren't covering that tell you what's really going on.
Yeah, it's a firehose, but it's still better than counting on "traditional" news sources that are not that reliable, and almost all of them have an axe to grind.
We haven't even touched on the problems involved with filtering the megatons of crap out of the raw datastreams. This, more than writing skills, is where any centralized news processor would have to excel. Newsmen used to have to THINK. How many still do?
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