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The average person's attention span is just five minutes and seven seconds compared to 12 minutes ten years ago, according to research by Lloyds TSB Insurance

This is something I've noticed too. If I watch TV I can't believe how fast all the edits are these days, the new Bond film is almost unwatchable in places. They can't even roll the credits on a TV program without showing what's on next. . if I ever have the misfortune of listening to daytime radio 2 the 'interviews' are edited so tightly eveveryonetalkslikethisand and normal conversation sounds weird because some one's decided 'thinking time' between sentences is bad radio.
I wonder if they have software to edit out any silent bit over a quarter of a second? Listen to the interviews on the Steve Write show. People don't really talk like that!
The editor of Smash Hits was on the radio just before it stopped publishing, she told how they can't put a page of text in the magazine anymore, because kids won't read it, they had to chop it up into soundbites and eye grabbing pictures. This trend has extended to or radio, TV, and film and it's a bit crap I reckon. Everything is splashes flashes and bangs and fragmented bits of fluff.