Just as a factory pumping out pollutants degrades that air … - Oliver Burkeman

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Just as a factory pumping out pollutants degrades that air for everyone, so a TV blasting cable news into an airport lounge degrades the attentional capacities of everyone nearby.

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Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British journalist (principally for the British newspaper The Guardian) and writer.

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