MMMM # 176 --- T-M-I.

    I read---or at least quickly scan---hundreds of news stories some days. I watch dozens of hours of TV news each week. I hear lots of radio news too.
    Yet apparently it is not enough.
    I keep coming across stories that I feel I should know about, but don't.

• The major mortgage foreclosure firm that held a Halloween party mocking the homeless! (it has now shut down due to all of the business it lost after the publicity)
• A man in his 70's who was looking at stuff in the sporting goods department of a Wall-mart in L.A. about 5:00pm, when a homeless man grabbed an aluminum bat and proceeded to beat him to death.

     Even the relatively casual consumer of news has a flood of information arriving every day. Is it too much? Every now and then I go and cancel some of the email subscriptions I've signed up for. There may be good information in them, but T.M.I. And something has to go.
     Stuff that would never make it into the papers years ago now swirls around the net for half a day, and then is picked up by the papers and TV who can't ignore the noise the stories have generated online.
     Everybody is a publisher, even Tim Lennox! Most of the items I include on this site are much shorter than they used to be. If visitors are going to be here for two minutes or so, I want them to be able to take away as much as possible without having to wade through T.M.I.

The End

[Suggested Reading: a column about media pro-police bias over at The Huffington Post. Instead of being the cynical doubters we should be, too many journalists are siding with The Government, including cops.]

[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a SHORT regular feature of this website.]