Do journalists abuse questions? Do they make every article title some form of rhetorical question? Do they do this to create a ’straw man’ to write about? Is this in fact a tactic to create news where there is no actual information? Do they then load the article with more questions thereby creating the illusion of enquiry? Do we thus end up with an innuendo that is difficult for their subjects to answer? Is this an example of the old ‘have you stopped beating your wife’ attack?
Is Time and their online version particularly addicted to this form of writing? Do they load up their magazine with articles such as, Can Obama Overcome Cauliflower? Does TV Cause Penile Distemper? When Will America Eat Dinner?
Have we created a system which rather than expanding to meet the needs of information, vainly attempts to manufacture enough to fit the obese ‘blogosphere’? Will this overextension of information lead to a crash like the ‘economic meltdown’? Would news be valueless? Has that already occurred, when celebrity gossip occupies the majority of every news service? Are you getting a headache from the constant questions? Is that headache a symptom of a lack of content or a oversupply of container?