Our appetite for sensationalism and scandal may be the consequence of a humdrum existense--societal NO-DOZ.
Persistent sensory overload raises the threshold necessary for a stimulus to elicit a response.
Super-saturation TV coverage is like an electronic lobotomy--viewer reactions become blunted, emotions dulled.
"Routine" disasters now barely raise a blip on our emotional radar screens.
It was News when the killer alligator was caught. It was NOT News that bits of its human victim were found in its stomach!
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