RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Our All-Consuming, Incomprehensible News Cycle. “Even with all this bandwidth, we can’t judge what really matters.”

With misinformation as with miseducation, the public sees but not in due proportion. Its calculations are put all out of reckoning. The image of the world is presented like a reflection in a funhouse mirror, with certain aspects greatly enlarged while others are minimized almost to invisibility.

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