Junkie Is As Junkie Does

As someone who works in media, loves media, hates media, is thrilled by media, is disgusted by media and who generally cannot tell up from down when it comes to undertanding this whole mixed-up world that's become the blogosphere, this article leaves me perplexed:

The average American is a ravenous media junkie, consuming up to nine hours a day of television, web time or cellphone minutes, according to new research which raises fresh questions about how technology is revolutionising society...

On a typical day at the end of 2004, 70 million Americans went online to use email, get news, find health and medical information, book travel or countless other activities, a figure 37 percent higher than four years before, the survey found.

And guess what -- in the same amount of time the use of "prescription drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the adult popluation has increased by 200 percent."

Curious, huh?