While arguments can be made that Twitter, Facebook et al encourages only superficial coverage of weighty governmental concerns... hey, at least it acts like a g

While arguments can be made that Twitter, Facebook et al encourages only superficial coverage of weighty governmental concerns... hey, at least it acts like a gateway. Seriously - what do you notice first? A line on your facebook feed, an alert from your Tweetdeck account, or a thousand-word column on the NYT or White House blogpost exhaustively covering every detail? I would hesitate to say this is in absolutes, but I do feel that the two former two forms of media are /more/ likely to drag an audience to the latter two - it'd exist outside of their range of concerns otherwise.