Do you feel the Media Age offers little in actual substance?

Question

We live in age of overload, an excess of all kinds of information that serves many purposes, some good, some not so good and most self serving at best.

Knowing this, do you feel the current Age of Media offers little of actual substance?

Answer 1

yes. everything is style over substance. we are given so much information so often that we cannot process any of it. technology is speeding up our lifestyle so that we cannot have conversations that consist of anything more than soundbites or cliches or a quick answer.
sometimes don't you converse with someone and after it's done, you think about what you said, and think "man, i didn't really mean that. but i didn't have enough time to really weigh the question (or problem or idea) and give an intelligent and informed response."?

movies are released 5-10 at a time, weekly and the ads are everywhere and the trailers are 30 seconds to a minute long.
we don't have a chance to enjoy anything anymore.
it's all consume, consume, consume. and people are desensitised to real feeling, it's all just reactions to the present stimulus and then the next one.

how would you feel if someone came up to you with a box of cologne (for example) and took out a bottle and sprayed it on you.
then he says, "how do you like that one?" then before you even smelled it he takes out another and sprays it and asks you about that one and before you answer then he takes out another and sprays and asks and sprays and asks and sprays and asks...
it would make you crazy (and smelly).
television is a drug consisting of nothing but one-way information called "programs".

Answer 2

we get what we pay for.

if you want substance, read - don't watch.