Ummmh! THERE! I didn't think I'd ever get the lid off that can of worms!
News? The word itself means NEW, but what's new, when like you say, it's there over and over again. It's a diversionary tactic. Keep showing OJ's Bronco on the highway, and speculate on what you know nothing about...take up more airtime, and avoid the real news. Every day, there are newsworthy things happening, but corporate owned media controls what you see.
You could always watch independant news, like Democracy Now!, but you'd be criticized as a tree-hugging liberal for listening to such nonsense like global wartming actually being a threat, or another unknown fact: 100 million was spent investigating Monica Lewinski & cigars, but only 19 million was spent investigating the biggest attack against the US in it's entire history.
Investigative journalism is a thing of the past, when people like Rupert Murdock own everything, denying diversification of what is reported, because they own all outlets.
Fifty news outlets were what we had in the 1950s, and we are down to five.
Without real news, sensationalism is not only needed, but expected. I could go on and on citing more examples, but the fact is, this all has to do with control over the average citizen of the US.
What did Bush want us to do after 9/11? go shopping, and leave the rest to us, introduced us to the five color FEAR ALERT system, and decided it was alright to spy on everyone, because ANYONE might be a terrorist. Where was CNN & Fox News? In the hip pocket of the administration.
The first thing an invasion force does when it enters a country is to secure the media. Sway the people, drop propaganda from airplanes. In the US, we don't need leaflets, we just willingly tune in to Bill O'Reilly, and watch a network who has turned "Fair and Balanced" into nothing more than a patented catch phrase.