Processing in Duplex, As A Means To Managing Information

I've always enjoyed listening to teenaged girls talk to each other, because they tend to talk all at the same time, which can save a lot of time getting messages across. The drawback, of course, is that the actual information content of the speech has to be fairly-low, in order to make oneself understood.

We all have ways of dealing with modern media's vast throughput.

S.'s method is to have both the TV and the radio on simultaneously, which helps maximize media throughput. The drawback, of course, is that what one actually learns depends on what part of the room one is located, and often, one can't make sense of any of it, because of the cross-chatter.

K.'s method is to use the TV for visual messages, and the radio for aural messages. The TV is usually on mute. There are exceptions of course. Sometimes one has to rely strictly on the TV: making sense of Les Feldick's Kinta-Oklahoma-based TV Gospel Ministry teachings depends on actually listening to him. Same goes with making sense of the plots of movie musicals from the 40's. But for many purposes, like watching stock stores on FOX TV's Business Channel while getting the daily message from Rush on the radio, K.'s duplex method of processing media throughput is superior.

There is the question about whether the information is accurate, of course, but that's an entirely-different question. Teenaged girls have rudimentary fact-checking methods. Regrettably, modern media hasn't caught up with all that yet.