by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I finally realize why I can’t watch the news on television: the information flow is relatively slow.<\/strong><\/p>\n I haven’t watched news on television in years. I stay abreast of the issues of the day via reading from the Internet. I scan probably a dozen major news sites as well as about a hundred blogs every day.<\/p>\n Over the holidays, I spent a week with relatives. They still watch the news on television. I would sit through maybe the first two minutes before I could stand it no longer and would leave the room. Most of the stories were silly (man bites dog); all the stories were poorly reported.<\/p>\n I realized the problem in this situation: the information flows too slowly on television news, at least too slowly for my taste. A person reporting the news can only speak so fast. I can read or scan text news much faster and in the past several years I have grown accustomed to that speed. Listening to someone read the news hurts my head.<\/p>\n Given the slow speed of speech, the news stations can only report a little news in their 22 minutes (8 minutes of commercials per half hour). The big cable networks state a story and then host an “in-depth discussion of four experts.” Each expert has about two minutes to comment on the story. They speak slowly as well. During the ten-minute discussion I can scan half a dozen well written analyses of the story written from as many countries.<\/p>\n Alas, one day television news may switch to a form of speed speaking or something so that they information flow rises to the standard of the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I finally realize why I can’t watch the news on television: the information flow is relatively slow. I haven’t watched news on television in years. I stay abreast of the issues of the day via reading from the Internet. I scan probably a dozen major news sites as well as about a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17],"tags":[154,139],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-culture","tag-communication","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}