Interesting Article About Media Overexposure

This is a pretty interesting article about how the media goes ape over stories like catching Jon Benet's supposed killer.

The problem is that when the media, particularly television news shows
and especially the 24-hour cable networks, turn their focus on an issue, most
everything else disappears. That means the issue is much larger than the
JonBenet saga. Anything can be overdone, even serious topics such as the crisis
- or crises - in the Middle East.

It seems the media always end up doing this. I guess this guy dubs it "Blocking out the Sun" and I really agree with it. The news media seems to just go after a story and run it into the ground and then totally forget about it. When they bring one story to the front the other ongoing stories seem to be like background noise.

Meanwhile, Iraq slowly becomes a daily casualty report, the fall
elections become a discussion about "security moms," the economy boils down to
the daily stock numbers, and Afghanistan essentially disappears from the
news.

It would be interesting if they gave the news in an update format keeping each update the exact same length. So they would have an Update from Iraq, and Update from Afganistan, Update from the Campaign Trail, Economic Update, Washington Update etc. Each update would be 5 minutes long and be all the current news about a topic and maybe some background or human interest stuff if they have to fill in some time. It would be kind of like RSSing the news.