Reading some vapid copy less than two and a half hours a week is as near to being in a complete state of torpor as anyone is likely to get. The blurbs these anchormen read on the evening news are all but abbreviated out of existence.
Chipmunks excrete feces less condensed.
In terms of content, we are talking about miniscule bordering on non-existent. Children in kindergarten kid compose more intricate prose using blocks. The anchorman sits on his news tuffet in a cavernous studio whose walls are adorned with clock faces proclaiming the hour in remote places. Albert Einstein, long ago, revealed to us that time is all over the place, but, apparently, Peter Jennings feels it's incumbent on him to corroborate Einstein. It imparts a sense that one's breakfast is being prepared by global warming.