Short Attention Spans

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Anyone Listening?

“In an era in which attention spans are short, it is going to be hard because you’re going to have to figure out ways to make it more entertaining, and you’re going to have to be more creative, not less. Because if you just do great reporting and nobody reads it, that doesn’t do anybody any good, either.”

—Barack Obama, addressing annual gathering of Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting,  “Obama’s speech on press, politics at Syracuse University event,” 2016

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