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What Makes People Avoid the News? Trust, Age, Political Leanings — But Also Whether Their Country's Press is Free

from Nieman Lab

What Makes People Avoid the News? Trust, Age, Political Leanings — But Also Whether Their Country's Press is Free Nieman Lab Avoiding the news is seemingly becoming more difficult and more common. It used to be that, if you skipped the morning paper, didn’t tune into news radio in the car, and kept the TV turned to HGTV, you could very easily go a blissful day without any notice of the outside world. Today, news — little tiny subatomic quarks of news, slipping in between memes and gifs and Uncle Ted’s thoughts on Hillary — is everywhere on digital devices, if mostly in deeply fractured form.  READ MORE

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