Heavy Day-To-Day News Followers Continue Trending Down
- by Wayne Friedman , October 25, 2023
In what may give some TV news networks and local TV stations some pause going into next year’s Presidential and Senate election period, only 38% of U.S. adults “closely follow the news,” according to a just-released 2022 Pew Research study.
This is virtually the same level as the prior year …
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The difference between democratic party supporters and those who favor the GOP in this study and , most likely, in recent ones, is probably explained--in part--- by the persistent anti-news media campaign waged by Trump and his supporters since 2016. If you buy the idea that the news media in general is presenting false or biased informtion, it would be natural to say that you are following "the news" put out by the news media less intensively. Whether that is really true---and you--- a respondent in this survey---- have actually cut back significantly on your news consumption is open to question.
Absolutely Ed. While the questions remain the same the environment respondents live in has radically changed. The "socially acceptable" answer would be that one is watching less news. Now, "news fatigue," I feel is very real, with many media outlets reporting on every Trump tweet, his multiple court appearances, and now the steady stream of his senior aides flipping to get a less severe sentence is making everyone exhausted!