News is like Modern Food

I was going to respond to Alan’s post by the following email. Later I thought it was not appropriate to respond in such a way. However, I would like to make a record for my thought here.

I know that news can make money for newspapers or news agencies. Youtube is one of the recent examples. Can news make money for investors? I use the following analogy to explain my thinking.

Rice can be used to make porridge. Rice can be used to make rice wine. Rice can also be used to make hard liquor.

Porridge is only physically changed form of rice. Rice wine is half-physically and half-chemically changed form of rice. Hard liquor is completely different from rice chemically. It is biologically changed form of rice.

Porridge can hardly make people exiting. But rice wine is such a delicacy. Many people like it very much. Then liquor is such a wonder. It can make people completely exited, sometimes, forgetting their own names.

It seems that the more advanced processed rice makes people happier.

In this highly developed country, who would care about consuming porridge, or rice wine, or liquor? News is becoming the modern food for educated people.

News is prepared, not with physical, chemical, or biological processes. It is prepared with psychological and sociological process, a much more complex process than biological, chemical or physically process.

Sometimes I am wondering what news can do to people. Can news make people happier than drinking liquor?

Drunk (by liquor) driving is dangerous. Is it possible for people becoming drunk by consuming too much news?