In reference to the volume of material to be read, a classmate the other day used the phrase "drinking from a fire hose." Two weeks into two classes compressed from 13 to eight weeks and trying to digest scores of online posts, I can appreciate the analogy.
Conventional wisdom holds that newspapers are losing readers to the Web, but I wonder if that's the case.
Talking with an articulate, college-educated medical technician at a doctor's office the other day, I learned that he reads the local newspaper only occasionally -- and then only about sports, in the free, online edition. Didn't he want to know if government -- any government -- was planning an action that might affect him?
He felt sure, he said, that if anything of moment was about to happen, he would hear about it.
He seemed not so much like a man who didn't want to know as one trying to avoid drowning in the information already being poured on him.
If that's what is happening, the solution for news organizations may lie in less, not more.
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