Frantic, pointless activity. The rest of us sometimes feel that way about the news. We have indulged too long in promiscuities of information. They have made us tired. Too often the news just keeps us artificially awake, overstimulated.
Information overload produces attention deficit disorder.
We are all Oprah now. Bill Clinton, of course, was Niagara itself. The Music Man managed to turn even something as banal as the cost of his postpresidential office space into an outraged debate. It's shrewd to have done so. He is working his agenda.