The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.
My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
When my boys were little, I'd throw so many toys at them, but they didn't want to play with any. Then I'd give them a truck, and they would play for hours. I believe the same thing applies to a consumer - edit their choices, and they will be more intrigued.
To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.
I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.
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