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Taming

Time

ave you noticed anything new about news broadcasts? Not
Hlong ago, all-news cable stations began to position a scroll-
ing bar at the bottom of our TV screens. The goal: to provide
concise “headlines” that go beyond what the on-screen news
anchors and correspondents are covering. Programmers now
even sometimes add a second headline bar to add a layer of
text to the scrolling one.
Why do they do this? Because the news now changes so
rapidly and the volume of fresh information has become so
great that it simply can’t be presented any longer within the
time constraints of a typical news broadcast. Moreover, many
viewers don’t have the time to wait for the news. They want it
all at once, now. Programmers also realize that people have
become increasingly able to absorb several streams of informa-
tion at once. So why not present it that way?
Our lives had begun to reflect a similar change long before
this latest approach to communicating news took hold.
Technology has made possible the transmission of increas-

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