Hooked on obsession

A Merganser Duck

  If you watch the news, or even if you don't, do wonder why every subject gets beaten to death?  Do you wonder why?  The why is the reason I'm writing this.
  The RMS Titanic sank in April of 1912, that's a fact.  So far during the month of April I've seen stories about survivors, family of people who died, a trip through a "special" memorial graveyard, discussions about the construction of the ship, a story about the shipyard where the Titanic was built, and a lengthy lecture on the rivets used in the bow.
  The reason is that we have become accustomed to becoming obsessed with every "major" story.  Let's suppose that someone does a story that reports the result of a study.  A study has revealed that people who, when walking, step off with their left leg first is related to ducks.  Now that's far fetched but it serves to illustrate.
  Soon we would have TV shows named "Name that Duck", or ducks tail haircuts would come back from the 1950's.  We may be subjected to duck of the day stories on the news, we would look at different nests, eggs, egg art, things with feathers - well, you get it.  Every "major" or imagined major story is followed ad-nauseam.
  And all that duck talk was driving me daffy!