This is some of what’s caught my attention:

• Young Adults Over­whelmed By Elec­tion News Online, Study Says | NWU — “Young adults often click away from 2008 elec­tion news online because they feel news sites bom­bard them with too much inform­a­tion and too many choices, accord­ing to a new study released by North­west­ern University’s Media Man­age­ment Cen­ter.” Too much info, too few real choices perhaps.
• Is Local Import­ant Really? | Poynter Online — “I’m glad that the Knight Found­a­tion is ask­ing basic ques­tions about what kinds of inform­a­tion people need sup­port com­munity and demo­cracy. How­ever, I ques­tion the Commission’s strong focus on geo­graph­ic­ally defined local com­munit­ies. It seems to me that with the way the media land­scape has been evolving, geo­graph­ic­ally defined local com­munit­ies are becom­ing stead­ily less cru­cial from an inform­a­tion perspective.”