Life Here in the Skinner Box

The hunger for constant, instant digital stimulation has made Skinner Box pigeons of the lot of us. The need for the digital fix turns out to be as compulsive as yanking the levers on a slot machine.

And easily distracted minds are easily gulled minds. 
Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein's book “On Rumors” is a reminder that the job of what's left of professional journalism in the digital age is not merely to inform members of the public about factual, relevant, interesting information they don't know, but also to "de-inform" them about the things they THINK they know, but don't.