the.com/rundown

All the news that's fit to skim, for people who'll claim they read the article.

means A condensed summary that hits the main points — quick to deliver, quicker to be mistaken for the full story.

from Built from 'run' plus 'down,' the sense comes from the idea of running down a list point by point, top to bottom — the same logic behind a sports 'rundown' of plays or scores. The adjective 'run-down' (exhausted, decrepit) is a separate cousin, from a clock or person winding down to a stop, so the summary sense and the worn-out sense share a spelling but not quite a story.

format
bullet points pretending to be journalism
etymology
from boxing, a count before you're finished
length rule
inversely proportional to actual importance
trust signal
used when details would ruin the narrative
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