The newscaster fails to realize that the society he's so accustomed to, in which logic and science reign supreme, is on the way out. Individual humans sometimes change their paradigms quickly. This happens, for example, when a scientist becomes a Christian. This doesn't mean that the scientist gives up all the scientific assumptions he has grown so accustomed to. It means that science is no longer the only way or perhaps even the most important way that he explains reality.
Societies change much more slowly.
A paradigm shift for an entire culture may take several hundred years. At least that has been the case in the past. Hellenism Two thousand years ago, Hellenism had dominated people's thinking throughout the Mediterranean world for several hundred years. Hellenism was humanity's best effort up to that time to develop a rational basis for determining reality. However, by the time Christ came into the world, a major paradigm shift was already underway.