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| Verbatim screengrab of yesterday's Chicago Tribune, though I blocked out the advertising. |
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The problem with the instant dissemination of information through countless channels to a kajillion people is that often this information is wrong* or the opinions surrounding are half thought out and reactionary instead of trying to make sense of anything.** This week has seen lot of this sort of activity—hilariously simultaneously parodied and captured 100% accurately by Scott—and it's got me thinking we should impost a moratorium on reactions of at least a few hours if not a full day. Think of how less cluttered, more thought-out and wonderful world this would be!***
*See "selfie" and "tweak" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Oh wait, YOU CAN'T BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT IN THERE.
**Even I am guilty of this at times and need to better follow my own advice in those cases, but take for for instance the Miley Cyrus thing from a few days ago and notice I waited until the next day to parse it out and write anything about it because I thought raw indignation and bandwagon-jumping did no one any good.
***My biggest beef is with all the media outlets that are getting things more and more wrong because they want to be the first to comment or break a story and get those page views and "damn, we'll just correct it later if it's wrong, what matters right now is the traffic.
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