More News, Less News
Despite the proliferation of outlets to disseminate the news -- such as radio (including satellite radio), TV (including the all news cable outlets), newspapers and journals, the internet (including blogs) -- this does not seem to have translated into a corresponding increased coverage of a broader range of news and information. If anything, we are getting less news than those olden days when all we had were the daily newspapers and the major news networks.
In the past two months, we have gone from the saga of Anna Nicole What's-her-name, to the depravity of Don Imus and now to the rampage at Virginia Tech.
Clearly the last incident was horrendous and newsworthy, but I must say that shortly after I heard about the horrible murders, one of the first thoughts that popped into my head was that the press had found a replacement for the Imus story. See also, Balloon Juice.
Definitely all news, all the time. Only problem is that it's the same news. I thought that we were living in a multi-tasking society; yet the news media seems only to be able to cover one story at a time.
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