The phrase "'breaking news' is 'broken news'" was derived from 📝The Correspondent's remarks on the 📝Human Use of Human Beings in service to the 📝Monetization of Attention.
As a consequence of a business built on advertising revenue, publishers are encouraged or forced to scare their readers with sensationalism by overexposing risks while blinding them to systematic progress. Thus, news outlets mislead readers because it pays more to focus editorial attention on the sensational, exceptional, negative, recent, and incidental as they are more profitable, thereby losing sight of the ordinary, usual, positive, historical, and systematic.