The BBC has published a story about the dramatic rise in the number of people actively turning away from the news, resulting from a survey of 97,943 people in 47 countries:
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.
Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East may have contributed to people’s desire to switch off the news, the report’s authors said.
This is despite there being apparently numerous reasons for why one might have thought people would be more interested, not less, in the news:
It comes at a time when billions of people around the world have been going to the polls in national and regional elections.
The report found that elections have increased interest in the news in a few countries, including the United States.
However, the overall trend remains firmly downwards, according to the study.
Around the world, 46% of people said they were very or extremely interested in the news – down from 63% in 2017.
In the U.K., interest in news has almost halved since 2015.
“The news agenda has obviously been particularly difficult in recent years,” the report’s lead author Nic Newman told BBC News.
“You’ve had the pandemic [and] wars, so it’s a fairly natural reaction for people to turn away from the news, whether it’s to protect their mental health or simply wanting to get on with the rest of their lives.”
Mr. Newman said those choosing to selectively avoid the news also often do so because they feel “powerless”.
It’s an important story because it raises all sorts of other questions about whether people trust what they’re being told. Apparently, 40% of people still trust the news but it was allegedly 44% during the pandemic. Both figures suggest that more than half of people don’t trust the news or don’t know one way or the other. However, if fewer and fewer people can even be bothered to watch, listen to or read the news, that’s academic. No wonder the U.K.’s current election campaign has barely lit anyone’s fire.
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In the drive to waste OPM Kneel’s Labour Party vandals have a lot of catching up to do but I am confident they will give it their best shot.
It used to be “the toilet papers too rough, out brothers”
Now it’s ” he called me he! Out comrades!”
The four ways of spending money, in descending order of preference:
1. Spending your own money on yourself.
2. Spending your own money on someone else.
3. Spending someone else’s money on yourself.
4. Spending someone else’s money on someone else.
Labour and the unions flip-flop between 3 and 4 (OPM) and denounce anyone who wants to do 1 and 2.
But then, what exactly has the Tory party been doing?
Folks, it’s all fucked! I don’t know what the solution is. But solutions tend to find themselves… when it’s too late.
They already have the solution. ———Print more money (Modern Monetary Theory)
Union bosses competing on which of them can circle closest to the drain…
All aided and abetted from on high by the politics of dependency and division.
Plus ça change…
Well I’m completely baffled.
”Data from Clalit Health Services (Israel’s largest healthcare organization representing more than 50% of the population)
CARDIAC ARREST Diagnoses per 1M population increased 225% from 2021 to 2022!
Up 431% from 2020!
What happened in 2021??”
https://twitter.com/_aussie17/status/1680580184603328512
Well I think on the trans issue I stand with Russia. It’s just a shame that will never happen over here. I think what the trans extremists have succeeded in doing is shooting themselves in the foot due to their disgusting behaviour and massive over-reach with their ideology. They always did have human rights but they wanted to trample on women’s rights and dominate by erasing us. The ominous as hell amount of energy put into targeting kids obviously crossed a line for many who were previously disinterested or ambivalent towards these people. Now I just swing between pity and hate. No wonder Putin is looking to many other countries and feeling the need to stamp it out, like a cancer that’s spreading. We must look like a complete and utter shitshow. ”Civilized society”? Show me what’s civilized when it comes to much of this trans movement because I only see societies disintegrating with a goal to reconfigure in a way which is so at odds with the world as I always knew it. And the worst thing being that this isn’t just some grassroots movement that will fade away, like some transient phase. Many powerful people are behind the scenes enabling and empowering all of it. No idea how it’ll all end, if it ever will.
”Russia’s lower house of parliament has passed a new law banning gender reassignment surgery, in the latest attack on LGBT rights in the country.
The State Duma approved the bill, which will also ban people changing their genders on state documents, on Friday.
Speaker of the Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, said the bill would “protect our citizens and our children”.
In a telegram post on Friday, Mr Volodin also called gender-affirming surgery a “path to the degeneration of the nation”.
“We are the only European country that opposes all that is happening in the States, in Europe and does everything to save families and traditional values,” he said during the debate on Friday. “And we need to understand that there won’t be any future if we don’t adopt the law, if we don’t ban gender change.”
Fresh amendments added to the bill on Friday during its final reading included banning individuals who have undergone gender changes from adopting children, and annulling marriages where one party had undergone gender reassignment.”
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I have no problem with a trans person. I am infact happy for them. I hope they are live a full and happy life including a great sex life. ————I do though have a problem with biological males using the same dressing rooms, changing rooms and toilet facilities as my daughter or wife or any other WOMAN. How that situation can be resolved without redesigning every facility in every building in the country is unclear, but it cannot be solved by insisting women just shut up and accept it.
The Not-a-Conservative-Party should legislate to ban “Civil Servants” whose full time “jobs” are basically acting as a Trade Unionist (Labour-Party) activist.