24 hour news means that there is a lot of air time to fill, and sometimes they fill it with daft questions.
My favourite are sports journalists who invariably ask someone who has won a major event - "What does this mean to you?".
Can't they think of a different question?
A few years ago there was a rash of tv journalists saying something like this:- "Mr Smith, your wife has left you, your business has just gone bust, your house has burned down and your dog has just been run over. Tell me - how do you feel?"