National ADD, laziness, or plain ol' stupidity?
I know that the news media is in the business to fan flames. Editors will pick the most inflammatory sentence to use in the headline so people will go nuts. What's sad is it works because most people don't bother reading beyond the headline. Have our attention spans grown so small that we can't hang in there beyond the headline? Is it too much bother to read the story? Or are most people so stump stupid that, should they bother to read the article, they cannot suss out the truth behind the inflammatory headline? Whatever the cause, this habit is yet one more reason why the U.S. is going down the toilet . . . fast. Case in point. A big story trending the Internet today is about a Republican senator from North Carolina. The headlines all blare that this senator says that restaurant employees should not be required to wash their hands after using the bathroom. The comments in the various versions of this article reveal that about 99.9% of the respondents did not read the art...