For the Contemporary Media Glossary: "Story Torture"

Let us add to our modern vocabulary of new concepts (both serious and silly) of “the outrage economy” “the currency of attention” and “metafilm” and “mansplaining” and “metaenabling” and the like yet one more: “story torture”: “Story torture is the media strategy of taking a news item and torturing every possible angle out of it. Like real torture, the key is not letting the story die, instead slowly beating it from every last possible angle.”