[dlcarrier]

What traditional media doesn't attempt to keep its users engaged? The local broadcast news makes you watch for half an hour to an hour, with a quarter of the time being ads, plus more sponsored segments, constantly teasing the headline news subject, which could have been a 100-word article. They take half a page of printed news and draw it out as long as they can, trying to bait you the whole time. YouTube channels' clickbait titles and thumbnails have nothing on them.

[bluefirebrand]

Trying to keep people engaged on your 30 minute long news segment is a lot different than trying to keep them engaged every free waking moment they have

[karahime]

News is famously 24 hours, and will always tell you to tune in at 8/9/10 PM to find out why the country is in a shambles/your home is under attack/the aliens are coming to abduct you.

[bluefirebrand]

24 hour news is really just the same 1 hour repeated 24 times though, it's kinda not the same