Media: More is a bore

Consumers’ love of media isn’t ending. It’s just that they need a bit of time away. The amount of time the average American spent being entertained, informed or anaesthetized by any form of media shrank last year, according to an annual survey by private equity group Veronis Suhler Stevenson. That reversed a decades-long trend. This could be just a blip in the data, but there are two reasons to suspect it’s part of a structural shift. First, the rate of growth had slowed the two previous years....