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Original writing date lost - from pre 2008
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this or not, but, have you noticed how common it is now for all the paragraphs in online news sites and magazines to be only one sentence each? I've also noticed it in the local print newspaper. Have our attention spans got so bad that we can only absorb one sentence at a time without distraction? I remember some study years ago, that said childrens' attention spans were approximately fifteen minutes in length, due, they said, to the amount of TV a child watched; fifteen minutes being the average time between commercials.