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...is how much empty time is contained in any given "breaking news story"- which, often as not, consists of nothing more than print bulletins read periodically on-air by the people doing the "reporting" and the announcers- who then proceed to indulge in every possible speculation on what the words in the bulletin might have meant, hinted at, or omitted. Roughly as tedious and predictable as someone juggling one orange with their hands.
With a very few exceptions, there's your "immediacy of television."
Whenever I hear someone touting television for its "immediacy", I'm reminded of the "OJ Bronco chase"- which I didn't watch. Although I did get some glimpses of the transfixed audience at the local tavern, far gone into mass TV hypnosis while it was taking place.
