They demand a huge volume of news to fill their pages and air time, and in an information market with little or no segmentation this causes the same events to reappear again and again in a short space of time in newspapers, magazines, radio and television, creating a cumulative, amplifying effect which robs people of the space for their own "self."
九○年代後暴增的媒體，需求巨大的新聞量來填滿；無區隔或區隔有限的資訊市場，也使得新聞事件經由報章、雜誌、廣播、電視在極有限的時空中一再出現，很自然地產生累積與放大效應。於是，感官不自覺浸淫其中的視聽大眾，也很自然地失去了自我的空間。