In the early morning, after finishing his exercise, Lynch changed into a fresh summer outfit and appeared in the dining room. While eating breakfast, he watched the morning news.
Television news has increasingly impacted the newspaper industry, and as major TV stations become more adept at understanding the psychology of morning viewers, morning paper sales have begun to slump.
This is actually quite normal. Most people, particularly those in the lower-middle class, do not care about current events as much as those in the upper-middle class do, so they don't mind what kind of valuable news they can get during the time between waking up and going to work.
Perhaps for them, anything interesting is valuable, and television news has effectively captured this point. Some stations even focus on bizarre news, satisfying people's desire to do something while having breakfast.
