Why can't the media handle more than one story at a time?

[Bleacher Creature]

Flip through the cable channels at this very moment and I all but guarantee you that EVERY single one is covering this 10 year old unsolved murder, exclusive of any other story. It's an ongoing joke that the media can't cover more than one story at a time, but come on -- this is ridiculous!

[Demeter]

1. Trying to Keep the Overhead (Personnel Costs) Down

God forbid they have to hire more help.

[catzies]

2. It's not that they can't; it's that they don't want US to.

They want us only to be thinking/talking about what they're showing us at the time.

They think we're really stupid, and their profit depends on it.

[hobbit709]

3. Short Attention Span Theater

[Reciprocity]

4. There are 100 people dieing everyday this month in Iraq....

and no converge. Could it be that it is safer for the reporters to be in Israel and Lebanon than in Iraq?

[tomreedtoon]

5. Because American-educated Americans are MORONS!

You want proof? Stand near a snack bar or shop in a food court. Especially one with a big sign clearly showing the items for sale and the prices. Take one of those pocket counters or a paper and pencil.

Count how many people walk up to the counter, in full view of the sign, and ask "What have you got?" or "How much is that thing there?" In other words, the people who CAN'T READ the sign or ARE TOO LAZY TO READ the sign.

Having worked behind a snack bar counter in a discount store, a very busy one, I can tell that you will be surprised by the number.

Americans are idiots because our idiotic, abusive teachers and education system - and of course the parents of the students - haven't convinced them NOT to be idiots. So of course the news media only feature one story at a time. That's all our tiny minds can take.

[kentuck]

6. A very interesting question.

Why can't they do like 5 minute segments of the important stories of the day instead of hours on end of the same video and same stuff over and over and over and over...?

[AZBlue]

7. The media can - but most Americans can't. So sad. (eom)

[treestar]

8. They are too lazy

Mentally lazy, like most Americans. That would take organization and time.

And they have so much more airtime! The news was at most an hour before the flourishing of cable and the internet.

[KAZ]

9. Send an email. What else can one do?

CNN and MSNBC are doing the 24/7 story in my hood.

You want to affect them? It will take a lot more. IMHO