They know they saw something about a forest but don't remember the details. Or the colors.
"When it comes to the news of the day, newspapers, websites, bloggers, cable networks and aggregators all trip over themselves to be the fastest and the first. The competition has always existed, but technology has ramped up the rivalries."
Now the news happens so fast it makes your head spin. And it does this all day, every day.
One person who watches this each day says that "it is safe to assume the public does not know about many top stories or issues, and cannot be assumed to have enough data to ascertain truth versus spin, and right versus wrong ... people are intentionally filtering the information they consume through sources they agree with, or are turning instead to entertainment and idle-time activities, becoming less informed."
This is nice explanation for why we as a people are so "uninformed" (or stupid as some of my students say). And ironically, the news is partly to blame (not to mention the rest of the media, especially entertainment media).
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/20/133748222/media-black-hole-so-much-news-that-well-implode?sc=fb&cc=fp
This story is so true! After watching the news the past weekend for our assignment, I remembered why I stopped watching news on t.v and began to read it on the internet. One, it is easier for me to do during a busy day, but also because it seems to cut out a lot of the insanity seen on t.v. When I was watching the news, they kept talking about stories that I felt were irrelevant to me, and stories about celebrities that I could care less about. We are all so caught up in stories that fascinate us and amuse us that we can't and don't try to find the news that relevant to us. The news has done what all other outlets on t.v have done- they have tried to glamorize themselves and in doing so, they have made watching the news a task that one has to focus on and keep up constantly in order to follow along.
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