What's The Word

[lankeela]

for an overload of information, so people miss the vital message that is being got across?

[elliemay1]

data smog?

[Buenchico]

You seem to have answered your own question, Lankeela!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_overload
(Note the synonyms in the first paragraph there though).

[lankeela]

Guess I have but I am sure there is a word - what I am thinking of is more like the boy who cried wolf, told so many things that you become impervious to the news.

[jourdain2]

Well, there's 'infobesity', which is overload of info. and a word I rather like, but that's not quite what you mean. I'll keep thinking.
It's sort of like 'scaremongering'; isn't it?

[douglas9401]

I'm soooooo tempted.

[douglas9401]

But I'll settle for noise.

[lankeela]

Ah - could be 'white noise'!

[bobbinwales]

More than a word but.....Can't see the wood for the trees?

[bookbinder]

Waffle

[douglas9401]

Verbiage.

[Atheist]

Not a single word, but...
Can't see the wood for the trees.

[Atheist]

Ooops. Bobbi beat me to it.

[jourdain2]

Do you mean Douglas, Atheist? 'Verbiage' sounds perfect to me. :)

[1581960]

bamboozle ?

[Ken4155]

I quite like 'infoxication' from Chris's link.