They're not just hurting journalism, they're hurting readers. (Which is probably the same thing, of course). Crank every knob to 10. Compress music so it's lo

They're not just hurting journalism, they're hurting readers. (Which is probably the same thing, of course). Crank every knob to 10. Compress music so it's louder. Everything is all sugar, all caffeine, all fizz. Blood, guts, and gore get regular new ways to crank the volume. Adult entertainment in 2015 is so extreme, a guy from 1970 might wonder if it was a psychology experiment. Media is consumed en masse, in parallel. Google loses revenue if it loads 0.2 seconds slower than the competition. We had to invent runes like TL;DR this past decade as a beacon of faith to the impatient. The word "this" has turned into a scam - "Insane new medical treatment for aging uses _this_", "New sorting algorithm magnitude increase with _this_ insane tweak" "If you don't know _this_ then you will fail in 2015". _this_, the magic box you have to stick your face into before you can see what everyone's looking at. Factor that TL;DR in as fact and you will literally compress your article's body into the title your news feed lists - how do you sell advertisements when your idea is so easily understood it can be represented by a descriptive sentence?