When the same awful thing happens often enough, it ceases to be newsworthy – and that is a big problem, Adrian Chiles

The less new a story is, the less it counts as news. The clue, after all, is in the word itself.

 If you are in a cellar in Mariupol, you can’t move on; you can probably never move on. But the media have to move on; the “new” in news demands it. This is a real problem.

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