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
