When there’s 24 hours to fill with news, everything becomes news. Drew Curtis of Fark.com joins Coast to Coast AM’s Ian Punnett discussing his book derived from the Web site, It’s Not News, It’s Fark, which examines the kind of stories the mass media attempts to pass off as news.

According to Curtis, over the last several years 24-hour news outlets and related Web sites have moved from reporting real news to airing an increasing amount of “goofy” items. “There just isn’t enough stuff to talk about,” he said, citing examples of inane stories that now fill a typical news channel broadcast day.

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