Emotional toll of constant negative news and unlimited access to ‘doomscrolling’ has led to record-high news avoidance
News has never been more accessible – but for some, that’s exactly the problem. Flooded with information and relentless updates, more and more people around the world are tuning out.
The reasons vary: for some it’s the sheer volume of news, for others the emotional toll of negative headlines or a distrust of the media itself. In online forums devoted to mindfulness and mental health, people discuss how to step back, from setting limits to cutting the news out entirely.
Yep, it reads like an intro for an ad for ground news or something. People are more starving for information than ever. Our problem is that information is being curated by algorithms and user-biases and we don’t have shared realities anymore. That’s a way different problem than people “not reading the news because it makes them anxious.”