Just the other day I was chatting with my father, and he was contending that the world is so much worse than it used to be. More violent, angrier, etc. And my contention was that, no, that’s not the case; that the pervasiveness of the media and the incessant need to feed a twenty-four hour news cycle results in a constant requirement for more “food” for the beast, and our Internet/video age helps to supplement that need. Once upon a time, national TV news consisted of a half hour or one hour slot around dinner time, and that was it. Local news mostly reiterated national stories with a local edge, plus stories involving fires or physical danger, and that was pretty much that. Now potential media involvement and national attention is no further away than the latest video cam. Case in point:
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