david51058 in many ways I agree with you, but it has become the accepted language of news coverage. The general formula is: Studio - news anchor tells us the story, then says "Anne Reporter is on the scene now. Anne, can you tell us what's happening there? [even though I've just told everyone myself]". Anne usually (after nodding a few times) says something like, "There's no change in the situation here" followed by a summary of what we already knew, and "back to you in the studio." The studio anchor then tells us that the Special Correspondent For This Particular Thing has joined them in the studio, and the two of them then have a conversation, rehashing for the third time what the anchor told us in the first place anyway.
Thus ends the item that has been covered in 2 to 3 times as long a time as it needed. But unfortunately, this is part of the problem - news providers firmly believe that AMOUNT of coverage is directly related to quality of coverage: the more they bang on about it, the better the coverage. Hence the explosion of rolling news channels since the 90s.