LONDON, England -- Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana, a British study shows.
The constant interruptions reduce productivity and leave people feeling tired and lethargic, according to a survey carried out by TNS Research and commissioned by Hewlett Packard.
This was brought to my attention by a fellow editor on a college-publications listserv, who pointed out that smack in the middle of the page where this story is located is a box exhorting you to add X, Y, or Z to your CNN e-mail alerts. Which must mean that if religion is the opiate of the masses, as Karl Marx once said, cable news is apparently striving to be the doobie.
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