In 2018, Only the News of the Day Matters.
News has become the Short Attention Span Theater. Yesterday, we cared about a speech at a journalist's dinner. Today, we care about Trump's Nobel Prize, which will never actually be awarded. Tomorrow, it will be some other thing for us to focus on.
It looks like we have lost the ability to remember things from even the recent past, and are also unable to look toward the future and plan for that. Instead, we live from Breaking News to Breaking News.
What will be the next big distraction? Who can say? Perhaps monster tornadoes will destroy a city in the Midwest sometime today. That would keep our minds occupied while the world falls apart in the background.
I find all this to be very troublesome. What a comedienne said to Sarah Huckabee Sanders isn't really important. Trump's not going to get a prize from the very thoughtful Nobel Peace Prize Committee. Joy Reid has apologized. But, we won't remember. Something is about to happen that will capture our attention soon and help us forget everything else.
As Jesus supposedly said a couple thousand years ago: "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Yesterday's gone. Tomorrow is uncertain. Focus on today's big story, folks. You'll feel better!
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There are still folks yammering on about Joy Reid. 
