They've run out of interesting content, and the viewers are less and less interested in typical news stories (congressional votes, statistics, foreign affairs, etc. ), so the media has to work to make things interesting. Maybe that's why we're still talking about the vice presidential nominee for a president who lost the election. Normally, we don't hear frequently about such people, but talking about Sarah Palin apparently boosts ratings, like jokes about Michael Jackson or Paris Frankly, a governor resigning is such a non-item that I would expect 1-2 days in the news at most.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.