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Today, Explained

TV is getting dumber

Yesterday · 25 minExplicit
0:00-25:41

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We revisit an episode about how our shrinking attention spans are changing TV.

This episode was produced by Kelli Wessinger, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Miles Bryan and Melissa Hirsch, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Adriene Lilly, and hosted by Noel King.

A 13-year-old boy looks at an iPhone screen in Bath, England. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images.

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