> I don't think this is entirely new. One thing that confuses people is that social media (ie twitter) is all shared, so if a scandal happens anywhere you see i

> I don't think this is entirely new. One thing that confuses people is that social media (ie twitter) is all shared, so if a scandal happens anywhere you see it. I kind of think it's the exact opposite. We all have our own individual views of reality and are only able to see an extremely small subset of what's going on. Whereas before you were mainly reached by broadcast media that others would see as well, now you and the person next to you might have an entirely different feed of information coming in. To me it's not surprising at all that the author doesn't know "all the things going on". Really I think the author should consider the opposite: this is probably just an example of a million similar things that everyone should know about, but that he does not.