“More People Turning Away from News, Report Says”
June 18th, 2024I’ve been a newshound for as long as I can remember. I was mostly disinterested in school, but in the 6th grade, my teacher started including a current events trivia game in class once per week.
I was the only student who participated. No other students ever tried to answer. The questions were mostly related to major national and international stories. And no sports questions. It was great! School was fun for 10 minutes, once per week. (For three weeks. The teacher gave up on the activity because I was the only student who participated. Fair enough.)
In the early 1980s, it seemed like nuclear war with the Soviet Union was a possibility, so after homework, playing Choplifter and hanging out on BBSes on school nights, I’d check in with Ted Koppel on Nightline for one last news update before bed.
“Good, no mushroom clouds yet.”
Via: BBC:
More people are turning away from news, describing it as depressing, relentless and boring, a global study suggests.
Almost four in 10 (39%) people worldwide said they sometimes or often actively avoid the news, compared with 29% in 2017, according to the report by Oxford University’s Reuters Institute.
