This is our relationship to news

And for the apropos comment o' the week, that I wish I had written:

"Kids, i remember when the media used to report news. news traveled slow, so you only got some basic facts about a thing at first and then later as stories were researched and collaborated, you the fine viewing or listening audience got a finer story.

Now, as soon as 'it' happens, it's a rock thrown into the e*versal stream of consciousness. What's happening with 'it' NOW? Were experts wrong about 'it?' What does Obama/Cameron/Beck say about it? Has 'it' shown any drunken skin at an awards show? To the Googles.

Instead of being the observer of the 5 blind men with the elephant, we've become 1 billion blind men with the elephant."