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I'm sooo exhausted with the overhyping of everything.

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superboyac:
If you've read "1984" and "Brave New World", you don't need to read the news. :P

But I know what you mean about hype. All the most unimportant things are hyped beyond galactic proportions, meanwhile the news that actually matters either never gets mentioned or gets an off-hand mention. e.g. Atrocities by US-backed foreign rebel fighters in Syria and near universal support for Assad by the Syrian people, etc. Gee... the kindling for WWIII just isn't important enough for the news...

Try reading some alternative news as what you hear is radically different. And there's no non-stop celebrity gossip or non-issue news.

But, what do you expect from the MSM when it's owned by 6 PR companies. :P

And no - it hasn't always been this way. It's much worse now. I've been the editor for an industry journal for about 14 years and I've noticed the downhill slide. News is nothing more than press releases from industry and government - journalism is almost dead.
-Renegade (July 12, 2013, 10:09 PM)
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That's good to hear.  I get a little frustrated sometimes because I can't tell if I'm just "growing up" or actually sensing a legitimate difference in today vs. before.  It's so annoying! And it's a topic that is super difficult to discuss with 99.9% of people (from my experiences at least).  Mostly because I'm a pretty social person and these types of topics are pretty unfriendly, so I just don't dig too much into them (but oh, how I'd love to).  A couple of my friends just agreed to eventually have an all-day video session with pro basketball videos so I can "prove" to them how overhyped most of these average players are.  That's a first.  I told them they better not be toying with me!

IainB:
 ;)

4wd:
And here I thought it was just an effect caused by the current generation's Short Attention Span Disorder that results in everything needing to be repeated ad infinitum.

Renegade:
And here I thought it was just an effect caused by the current generation's Short Attention Span Disorder that results in everything needing to be repeated ad infinitum.
-4wd (July 15, 2013, 01:23 AM)
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What did you say? ;)

40hz:
And here I thought it was just an effect caused by the current generation's Short Attention Span Disorder that results in everything needing to be repeated ad infinitum.
-4wd (July 15, 2013, 01:23 AM)
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There's been some serious research done on just that. Seems there's fairly clear indications that the acceptance of the 'myth of multitasking' has gone a large way towards training human brains to be more easily distracted and unable to focus.

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