The attention spans have been shortening since Gutenberg invented the printing if not well before that. Television ushered the era of contentless spew well bef

The attention spans have been shortening since Gutenberg invented the printing if not well before that. Television ushered the era of contentless spew well before the Internet. The Internet gave more variety than the TV world but indeed devastated the print journalism world that had existed before. The point is this all part of a long term trend. That said, more media generally means that there is a significant amount of decent content still available but, yeah, the quality of the content produced by journalist institutions continues to decline. You'd need an extreme reversal of overall social trends to change the sound-bite factor here.