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by worldsayshi 726 days ago
The public, as a group, can only keep a small number of subjects in focus at a time. This feels like a phenomenon that I take for granted to be true but I haven't heard any name for it or read any studies.

It really feels like a symptomatic phenomenon of our time.

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>> The public, as a group

I don't know, my local journalists paid with public money seem to be able to follow a lot of domestic trivia. They are much less capable of following matters of national interest, like how the country's economy is doing, what laws are coming up, and how's that Orwellian State business coming along.

Quite a convenient arrangement, the public broadcasting business.