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In 1980, CNN launched the first 24-hour news network, fundamentally shifting journalism from daily analysis to endless immediacy.
The round-the-clock format demanded constant content, training audiences to crave the adrenaline hit of "breaking news." The question changed from "what does this mean?" to "what just happened?" - and eventually to "how do we keep viewers watching through the commercial break?"
The deeper casualty was causal thinking itself. Modern news consumers are overwhelmed with first-order facts but starved of the derivative analysis that actually matters - the connective tissue between events and their cascading consequences.
Based News attempts to restore this missing layer. By scoring stories on structural significance and mapping their derivative chains, we're not trying to be faster than traditional media. We're trying to be slower in the right ways - asking not "what happened today?" but "what will this cause tomorrow, next year, and next decade?"
The 24-hour cycle created a filter bubble of time, trapping us in an eternal present where everything is urgent and nothing is important. Understanding causal chains is the difference between being informed and being aware.
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