Lately, and especially after the heavy propaganda in the last few years and the rate at which it has exponentially increased, I had been wary of any news on TV. Sometime in the last year, one morning I was watching a news channel after just waking up for the day.
Now, anytime I've ever watched news when I'm not fully awake yet, I've been annoyed at trying to pay attention to the current segment while having the ticker at the bottom scrolling and distracting me. So, it dawned on me.
I started thinking that, although the mind is capable of multi-tasking, it's not normal to try to focus on multiple things at the same time. I decided there has to be something to that. I wanted to know who was the first to implement the news ticker, and what I found out, made me think, "no shit", because then there was no denying that the news ticker was meant to make you spread your mental resources too thin, so to speak.
So, no one news station was the first to start using the scrolling news ticker. There were 25 news stations who all first displayed this scrolling news ticker, all at the same time, and guess what day that was?
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Lately, and especially after the heavy propaganda in the last few years and the rate at which it has exponentially increased, I had been wary of any news on TV. Sometime in the last year, one morning I was watching a news channel after just waking up for the day.
Now, anytime I've ever watched news when I'm not fully awake yet, I've been annoyed at trying to pay attention to the current segment while having the ticker at the bottom scrolling and distracting me. So, it dawned on me.
I started thinking that, although the mind is capable of multi-tasking, it's not normal to try to focus on multiple things at the same time. I decided there has to be something to that. I wanted to know who was the first to implement the news ticker, and what I found out, made me think, "no shit", because then there was no denying that the news ticker was meant to make you spread your mental resources too thin, so to speak.
So, no one news station was the first to start using the scrolling news ticker. There were 25 news stations who all first displayed this scrolling news ticker, all at the same time, and guess what day that was?
9/11/2001