Investigative Journalism
Scroll, Forget, Repeat: How the Attention Economy Is Dismantling America's Social Conscience
America's most urgent crises are vanishing from public discourse within days—not because they are resolved, but because the architecture of modern media is engineered for forgetting. A growing body of psychological research and a chorus of alarmed media scholars suggest that the viral content cycle is doing something far more corrosive than merely distracting us. It is systematically dismantling our capacity for the sustained moral attention that systemic change demands.