Decreased Attention Spans

I've had a few conversations lately with other friends who write regularly (whether on blogs or elsewhere) and there seems to be a running theme concerning people who either don't read their pieces all the way through before commenting or who see what they want to see in the piece, regardless of its content. I won't say this is a huge problem yet, but there's been a disturbing number of incidents lately where I've noticed someone has fired off a response to things we've written lately after reading only the first few sentences or paragraphs. I'm sure it's a symptom of our sound-bite media culture, where we often can afford the time to skim things or read story ledes and little else. I can tell you, if I had a nickel everytime someone flamed me for something I supposedly didn't address, but did address further down in the piece than they were willing to read, well...