Early Thoughts on the News Cycle

How to think, write, edit and respond in the very short news cycle? As much as some of us think the news cycle is short, it may be no different than it was in the past. We push a lot more information up and down but is this analysis. Does it have value? There has been thousands of articles, news stories, tv shows, spoofs, blogs, etc. on the partial government shutdown. Do we know anymore than we did a week ago? Have we lost patience? Did we have patience? Is there evindence of either? How would we go about to answer this questions?