Obama argues that when you're drinking from the information firehose you may lose track of more important things. A completely obvious and very dangerous trend.
His real problem is that the media is no longer centrally controlled.
And meanwhile, you're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank that high on the truth meter.
"Some" of which don't. And "some" of which do, which is the real problem. The fact that he is objecting to "all kinds of arguments" whatever their content might be, is a giveaway.
information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment
Well, if you're old enough to remember when there were 3 channels and 1 local paper, you know that "information", such as it was, was a sedative at best. Sit in front of the TV, believe every sugary bit of crap on the 11 o clock news, go to bed. Nobody, and I mean nobody, was ever "empowered" by the media configuration as it existed through the 20th century. But for a centralized government, it was ideal--very empowering.
"His real problem is that the media is no longer centrally controlled."
No longer centrally controlled? You know we are down to 5 distributors that control an overwhelming amount of the music and films that we listen to or watch. Add the fact that Comcast just bought NBC Universal and you can assume the media is more concentrated by a few more than ever. But as long as we have 1000 blogs carrying the exact same message than it doesn't appear that way.
Which is worse 10 independent newspapers or 1000 blogs, financed and controlled by 10 people.
Obama argues that when you're drinking from the information firehose you may lose track of more important things. A completely obvious and very dangerous trend.
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