It was actually just meant to be the scrolling text that goes by whenever you're watching a news-story. Not all news shows have those (the channel we get now doesn't do it), but I noticed that some will just cram various headlines into the scrolling text so that your eyes have to keep ping-ponging between the scrolling headlines and the footage of the main story. (And people want to link *cartoons* with ADD! X_X) I'll try to make that clearer the next time it shows up, so thanks for bringing it up.
