Americans are exhausted by political news. TV ratings and a new AP-NORC poll show they're tuning out

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

NEW YORK (AP) — As a Democrat who immersed himself in political news during the presidential campaign, Ziad Aunallah has much in common with many Americans since the election. He's tuned out.

“People are mentally exhausted,” said Aunallah, 45, of San Diego. “Everyone knows what is coming and we are just taking some time off.”

Television ratings — and now a new poll — clearly illustrate the phenomenon. About two-thirds of American adults say they have recently felt the need to limit media consumption about politics and government because of overload, according to the survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Smaller percentages of Americans are limiting their intake of news about overseas conflicts, the economy or climate change, the poll says. Politics stand out.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-exhausted-political-news-tv-120317077.html

[XanaDUer2]

1. Every one knows what's going to happen

Its gonna be bad, but what is going to happen.

[underpants]

2. Sadly this opens up a window for them to do anything.

I saw this earlier. As we’ve come to find out a large amount of the population just read whatever the headline reads. Whatever headline the algorithms put in front of them.

[Irish_Dem]

3. This is a goal. To make the average citizen disengage from political discourse.

To check out, become complacent and not even vote or care.

[Kaleva]

4. Article shows how very few adults watch the news

If you add up the viewers CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News has as stated in the article,that comes out to a very small percentage of all adults in this country. It's in the single digits.

It's kind of irrelevant if a couple of hundred thousand former viewers tune out the news when there well over 200 million in the US that don't watch cable news to begin with

[BlueTsunami2018]

5. Which is also part of the fascist plan.

Throw so much shit at the wall and overwhelm everyone with so much outrage that they just tune out and make it easier to run roughshod over normality and traditions.

If you’re not watching it happen, is it really happening?

And then you wake up in a dictatorship.