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And, yes, I know this is more than a year old .... but ...
If you feel like there is too much news and you cant keep up, you are not alone. A sizable portion of Americans are feeling overwhelmed by the amount of news there is, though the sentiment is more common on the right side of the political spectrum, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted from Feb. 22 to March 4, 2018.
Almost seven-in-ten Americans (68%) feel worn out by the amount of news there is these days, compared with only three-in-ten who say they like the amount of news they get. The portion expressing feelings of information overload is in line with how Americans felt during the 2016 presidential election, when a majority expressed feelings of exhaustion from election coverage.
While majorities of both Republicans and Democrats express news fatigue, Republicans are feeling it more. Roughly three-quarters (77%) of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents feel worn out over how much news there is, compared with about six-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (61%). This elevated fatigue among Republicans tracks with them having less enthusiasm than Democrats for the 2018 elections.
More at https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/06/05/almost-seven-in-ten-americans-have-news-fatigue-more-among-republicans/
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)constant stream of tweets nor the blabbering on 24 by 7 'news' channels.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Which I wouldn't have if the news went back to just being the news.
PSPS
(13,614 posts)Change the channel. Avoid all cable "news" shows which are just opinion shows anyway. All of them. Just skim the headlines on news aggregation sites (including DU) and avoid obvious "outrage" traps which are very easy to identify. You won't regret it.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I don't watch TV; I'm not on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram either. It just seems that outrage culture and clickbait have infected what used to be normal discussion forums as well, even the ones on sceptical and science sites which ought to be immune.
hunter
(38,328 posts)Our television plays DVDs and Netflix. That's all it does. No broadcast, no cable, nothing else.
I read the local paper, the local weekly, and a few news websites so it's easy to skip all the manufactured outrage and avoid the fatigue that goes with that.
I mentally replace anything Trump says with the quacking of an angry duck.
Trump and Pence are fucking meat puppets, just as Ronald Reagan was. They are sad corrupt men who will say, do, or sign anything for a blow job.
Their masters are relatively silent, hiding behind the noise of the "news" machines.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)news, too, but this past week has almost convinced me to drop that too. It seems like everybody on both sides is just indulging in a food fight that no one can win and that precludes anything from actually getting done. Social media is going to be the death of this country as a functioning entity. How about a month of no reporting on what gets said on social media?
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)The more fatigued they are, the less hard they fight.
pwb
(11,291 posts)24 hour news sucks canal water. All of it.