Where oh where as our current events gone?

After I finished reading Amusing Ourselves to Death, I began to think about Postman’s statement that all the news and information that we receive through media consists of fragmented pieces of information (Chapter 7 near the beginning). Near the end of Chapter 7, Postman also goes to say that our current society, newspapers, radio, and magazines change the way that current information is present to mirror how it is presented on television in order to appeal to the general public. These statements made me question the information that we are presented with everyday. If Postman’s statements are applicable to today’s society, which they are, then that would mean that all we have as our source of current information is a big heap of fragmented information. This made me question where we can get information that is not fragmented like the ones that we are constantly presented with on a day- to –day basis. I think that the only source for un-fragmented information that we can get is from our studies. But this, however is redundant because by the time the information actually comes out of the printing press and onto the student’s desk, then the current information would not be so current anymore. Do you agree?