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Your News Mood Meter: How Readers Feel About The Stories They Access

Publishers must wonder at times how readers feel about the news. Pew Research Center asked the question, and found that consumers are not happy with it. 

They are more likely to feel negative emotions. But there are degrees. Overall, 46% are very or somewhat likely to feel informed. But 42% …

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  1. Kenny Kurtz from Persuasion Marketing And Media, October 22, 2025 at 8:02 a.m.

    What an oxymoronic piece. The news is the news? That's simply not factual any longer. Perhaps back in the day, when my grandfather was a journalist with NYT (he suffered a fatal heart attack at his typewriter  after 32 years there MAKING SURE his latest story was properly vetted, ACTUALLY TRUE, and newsworthy). People on a steady diet of spewed, and stewed horseshit are not angry, or sad about "the news," it is more about being lied to 24/7 from EVERY SIDE, by being baited into dopamine hits. I come from many generations of journalistic integrity, spent decades with Hearst, Washington Post/Newsweek, and Time Inc. but retired from all of that decades ago before the digital morass that embroils us today was unleashed. Sad? Yes. Angry that corruption has created a level of uncertainty that has relegated the word NEWS to a burning trash heap? You bet your ass...

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