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"We may say then that the contribution of the (media) to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this was not all: (media) also made public discourse essentially incoherent. It brought into being a world of broken time and broken attention, to use Lewis Mumford’s phrase."
Neil Postman talking about the *telegraph* and explaining news cycles and editorializing's affects.

"Amusing Ourselves to Death" is poignant read in this context, IMHO.