"The story burns more intensely and then it burns out more quickly," said Jonathan Alter, the Newsweek writer, musing about the life cycle of pieces. "And there's so much information and so much political coverage that it's easy for good stories to be lost entirely in that register." Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Great journalism about the cacophony generated by too much news, where individual pieces (even great pieces) get lost in the shuffle. The new style of news is bite-sized, fast-food, full of hyperbole and innuendo (salt and fat), but not very substantial in the long-term, and apparently that's the way most Americans, raised in an era of 10-minute television show segments and video game challenges, love it. When all voices are raised, nothing can be heard.
