The rise of social media; the proliferation of information online, including news designed to deceive; and a flood of partisan news are leading to a general exhaustion with news itself.
A new poll released last week found that 47 percent of Americans believe it's difficult to know whether the information they encounter is true.
Of the powerful new digital forces buffeting American voters, perhaps the most pernicious are items designed to deceive.
Walter Cronkite read the news every night, and most Americans went to bed with the same set of facts, even if they had different political views.
Mr. Pomerantsev argues that news avoidance cuts across political lines and that the concept of left and right no longer fits.
New academic work is emerging that supports the view that news avoidance is not about left or right.
Benjamin J. Toff, an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota, conducted in-depth interviews in Iowa this summer and found that those who say they avoid the news tended to be younger, female and poorer - people already stretched between jobs and home, making hours of evaluating news sources "The last thing they wanted to do with their time," Professor Toff said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/us/polls-media-fake-news.html
A new poll released last week found that 47 percent of Americans believe it's difficult to know whether the information they encounter is true.
Of the powerful new digital forces buffeting American voters, perhaps the most pernicious are items designed to deceive.
Walter Cronkite read the news every night, and most Americans went to bed with the same set of facts, even if they had different political views.
Mr. Pomerantsev argues that news avoidance cuts across political lines and that the concept of left and right no longer fits.
New academic work is emerging that supports the view that news avoidance is not about left or right.
Benjamin J. Toff, an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota, conducted in-depth interviews in Iowa this summer and found that those who say they avoid the news tended to be younger, female and poorer - people already stretched between jobs and home, making hours of evaluating news sources "The last thing they wanted to do with their time," Professor Toff said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/us/polls-media-fake-news.html
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