Tuning out as turn on

Rolling Stone has a bunch of stuff from its “Hot Issue” online, but not the best piece in it, which is by Rob Sheffield. It’s the “Hot Mood: Not dealing with reality.”

Mini excerpt:

We keep hearing that newspapers are dying, and we keep hearing it’s because of all this shiny new aweso-media, but it’s probably just because ignoring any kind of news is now a fundamental part of the nation’s daily routine for not loosing what’s left of our shit.

It’s an amusing piece, and it’s meant to be amusing, but at the same time, I kind of think he’s on to something.