I think the author was more talking about the difference between consuming information or consuming narrative even though he didn't quite phrase it that way. Le

I think the author was more talking about the difference between consuming information or consuming narrative even though he didn't quite phrase it that way. Learning about a new piece of regulation that just passed on immigration reform is information. Learning about what the sheriff of Arizona thinks about illegal immigration is narrative. Someone somewhere crafted that piece for you to consume and is spoon-feeding it to you. It's like the junk food of information. We like narrative, because its fun and exciting and designed to appeal to us, but at the end of the day has very little information value.