Media

However, for several reasons, I find the media’s current trend toward highlights and the sensational to be justifiable. First, the world is becoming an increasingly eventful place; thus, with each passing year, it becomes a more oreroess task for the media to attempt full news coverage. Second, we are becoming an increasingly busy society. The average person spends time atwork now than a generation ago. (more…)

The  speaker asserts that  rather  than  merely highlighting  certain sensational events, the media should provide complete coverage of more important events. While the speaker’s assertion has merit from a normativestandpoint, in the final analysis, I find this assertion indefensible. Upon first impression, the speaker’s claim seems quite compelling, for two reasons. (more…)