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During his conferences (lectures), their inattention was hurting their apprenticeship (learning of the subject matter).
David Ignatius, in his WP column, identifies what he calls our tendency toward "sequential hysteria," the phenomenon in which a problem is well recognized long before it reaches a critical stage, then for a few brief days it becomes Topic A, but then before long it's back to inattention, all without anything ever really being done about it.
Sometimes it is a clear-cut matter of fatigue or inattention, speaking trippingly, without attending to meaning.
Examples of Reagan's forgetfulness and inattention are frequent.
The usual suspects--inflated salaries, inattention to costs, and competition from other media--can be blamed for some of the industry's woes.