It’s a fact of life in this connected world that there is just too much news.

That statement isn’t actually 100% correct. There is in truth too much space for news and not enough real news to fill the space.
Plus bad news and overblown crises sell newspapers and attract viewers to the TV news channels. So the news outlets milk a crises for all it’s worth.

News organisations fuel the public fascination with doom. HIV and Aids, SARS, Bird Flu and now Swine Flu, or more correctly H1N1, fill the column inches and give overpaid news anchors something to talk about. The same can be said for the occasional terrorist outrage that is almost certainly the beginning of the end of the world as we know it.

Unlike 20 – 30 years ago when news came to you in the morning newspaper and the 6pm TV news, we now have almost instant 24 hour news. As it happens so we see, hear and read about it. But in reality there isn’t enough stuff to fill the news hole. So it gets regurgitated, re-hashed, new slants get added, experts crawl out of the woodwork and get wheeled in front of the cameras to pontificate on the forthcoming apocalypse.
The public watches while the news feeds our fears and dreads.

Sometimes there is just too much information.