Some months ago, they installed a television screen in the tactical operations center in which I work. Luckily, my cube faces away from the screen, because as most of you know (thanks Jon fo the term!) I’m ADOSS — Attention Deficit Ooh! Something Shiny! The closed-captioning is turned on and the volume is off.
The only advantage I see to the all-news channels is that you can tune in any time of day, watch for thirty minutes to catch up, and then be done and do something else. When it’s playing for eight hours a day, you see the same story at least sixteen times every day unless something exciting happens.
And if something exciting happens… that’s all that’s on for those eight hours.
How inane.
The Inanity is Really Shorter
The inanity is much shorter than 30 minutes. I know this reads bad, but I give the all-news channels 60 seconds to get me caught up on everything. If I’m online then it’s about 20 seconds. I’m a slave to the headline-driven media.