Warnings in the news about internet usage?

[Suzu]

I am monitoring local news broadcasts to see what's being said about political campaigns. Tonight, the local NBC affiliate is saying that too much internet use wrecks your ability to make decisions! Sounds like propaganda to me, because internet usage can lead to discovery of what's really going on.

One way to know if it is propaganda is to ask, is this story being repeated on local channels around the country? Have you heard it? Turn on your local news and see if it's on there, please!

 

[Mini-Me]

What's the context?

 

[Dr.3D]

Emmmm.... I would say, listening to too much establishment media wrecks your ability to make decisions. If the media is saying this, they are afraid people are going to wake up and see they have been lied to by the establishment media all these years.

 

[FreeTraveler]

The propaganda is getting deep in the legacy media. Maybe they'll all drown in the bull.

 

[Unknown.User]

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[DealzOnWheelz]

NBC affiliate is saying that too much internet use wrecks your ability to make decisions!

^This While staring at Dr.3D's avatar

 

[chipvogel]

Until now, identifying IAD has meant assessing symptoms. But in this new study, published in PLoS One, researchers from China found actual brain changes in the brains of young Web addicts.

...or another way of putting it; people exposed to a wider variety of views are much harder to control

 

[thoughtomator]

I can stop Internetting any time

 

[ItsTime]

The "idiot box" says what?

 

[parke]

Amen to that.. screw TV.

The "idiot box" says what?

 

[moonshineplease]

Stop watching Brian Williams. HE and NBC are hurting Americans ability to make decisions.

 

[angelatc]

I heard about the report a few weeks ago, but can't remember where I heard it. It was in the context that people don't retain information in the same way, because the brain apparently knows it can always go to Google if it needs the answer.

 

[Suzu]

Stop watching Brian Williams. HE and NBC are hurting Americans ability to make decisions.

I agree. And BTW I don't watch him, the TV is on in the background and I occasionally tune in with one ear

 

[Suzu]

Stop watching Brian Williams.

The story I mentioned in the OP was reported on the local broadcast, not the national news.

 

[Suzu]

Until now, identifying IAD has meant assessing symptoms. But in this new study, published in PLoS One, researchers from China found actual brain changes in the brains of young Web addicts.

The story I heard on the TV was just about verbatim to the above article.

...or another way of putting it; people exposed to a wider variety of views are much harder to control

For sure!

 

[Pawl2012]

Maybe they were talking about this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16505521

Edit: looks like someone already posted a similar article.

 

[Mini-Me]

I heard about the report a few weeks ago, but can't remember where I heard it. It was in the context that people don't retain information in the same way, because the brain apparently knows it can always go to Google if it needs the answer.

That's what I suspected the context was. It's true, too: We're habitually training ourselves to discard any information we can easily look up. Einstein would be proud (never memorize what you can look up), but taken to extremes, this tendency can be harmful to our memory. In a similar vein, our society's emphasis on multi-tasking is harming our ability to deeply concentrate as well...but this isn't inherently related to the Internet.

 

[Unknown.User]

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[The_Ruffneck]

I am monitoring local news broadcasts to see what's being said about political campaigns. Tonight, the local NBC affiliate is saying that too much internet use wrecks your ability to make decisions! Sounds like propaganda to me, because internet usage can lead to discovery of what's really going on.

One way to know if it is propaganda is to ask, is this story being repeated on local channels around the country? Have you heard it? Turn on your local news and see if it's on there, please!

they're talking about the extreme cases where people are so addicted they quit their jobs to play video games or whatever , not the people who spend 2-3 hours a day after work chatting or on forums etc

 

[unknown]

Today's big propaganda piece seems to be how Ron Paul is a "fly in the ointment of the GOP".