“We have all these new channels and tools to
understand the world as it happens, but there’s no reliable algorithm for
sorting through the morass.
“It used to be to read the morning paper on the way
to work and read the evening paper on the way home. Now we have to invent a new
personal methodology every day. And if we’re waiting for things to settle down
and become simple, that’s never going to happen.”
—Jim
Gleick, journalism and author, in “Lost in Space,” The New York Times, April 23, 2013.
• Editorial Comment: It’s exhausting.
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