Fact: News cycle stupidity reached its peak in the summer/fall of 1998. This is nothing.
mattyglesias
mattyglesias
Slate's Dave Weigel called attention to the cliche more directly:
This is the stupidest news cycle we've ever had until the next one.
daveweigel
daveweigel
The Wire has certainly noticed the lack of news (and complaints about it) as well. But putting newsroom cynicism aside, there does seem to be evidence that this August is worse than usual. Here, some tweets from the last 24 hours to show you what we mean.
Just received a press release from Brooklyn offering @enbrown as an expert available to talk about yurts.
Peter Suderman
petersuderman
BREAKING: People less excited about thing happening than they were when it happened before... DEVELOPING... http://bit.ly/aceYPEdaveweigel
daveweigel
Pandora's got an all-Glee station that my wife likes to blast. Somewhere between Journey, the Doors & Wicked, I lost my shit. @joshuafoust
Adam Weinstein
AdamWeinsteinMJ
And now for some drinking maps : http://bit.ly/bzhhdj
The Atlantic
TheAtlantic
Call up your congressman and warn him that our military has A CROTCH GAP! http://su.pr/33R7SrAdam Weinstein
AdamWeinsteinMJ
Alright, taking afternoon off to keep working on kids new closet. Big question: How much drywall dust can I get in my eyes?
Markos Moulitsas
markos
Ok, stepping away from the newscycle... RT @benpolitico: RT @pwgavin: CNN chyron right now; "New Development: WH: Obama not a Muslim"
Christopher Hayes
chrislhayes
I love you, Billie Holiday. And your dog, too: http://bit.ly/dqrRCq
alexismadrigal
alexismadrigal
Drinking gold/molten hot or so cold/not SoCo/made myself some cocoa/baroque or rococo/so loco/my dragon is strictly komodo/Giacomo
reihansalam
reihansalam
http://twitpic.com/2g9nrr Adding two new sweet canaries into my collection
Martha Stewart
MarthaStewart
time to place bets on what stupid crap we'll be talking about next august
Atrios
Atrios
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