News cycle? JouroList/WH on/off switch?
I sometimes imagine a "news producer" sitting in the White House at a huge console like a music producer's at a recording studio, running the slide switches up and down and bringing in other "themes" and "memes" in order to create his daily screeds for distribution to the JournoList as "Talking Points" ..... and varying the themes to fatigue his enemies with something like metal fatigue, when you bend a strip of metal back and forth until it breaks.
Today, all the headlines are about the WH heckler and the usurper saying it was HIS house. There were 6 stories on this at yahoo this morning. That “WH news producer” had nothing of importance to share so when with a rant that someone dissed his boss.