Feeling overwhelmed by too much information? What else is new? The amount of digital data available on the Web every day reaches records of mind-boggling proportions—now more than a zettabyte (10 21 ...

Texan Bob Schieffer’s new book on the media and news, “Overload,” is subtitled “Finding the Truth in Today’s Deluge of News.” Finding the truth, indeed, is becoming more challenging as news reporting ...