{"id":5496,"date":"2022-07-15T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:50","slug":"tuning-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5496","title":{"rendered":"TUNING OUT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you among those consuming less “news” in 2022?<\/p>\n\n\n

Axios published this headline recently: “News engagement plummets as Americans tune out<\/a>“.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Those are some serious drops in a year’s time – fewer eyes on both internet and cable! Online interactions cut in half.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

Axios concludes: “Survey data shows Americans have grown weary amid what feels like a never-ending cycle of bad news.”<\/p>\n\n\n

I don’t know, though. Haven’t the lead stories always been “the sky is falling”?<\/p>\n\n\n

For me, it is not weariness about bad news. I have tuned out more and more because I have concluded so much of the “news” is fictional.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

Call it “fake news” or “propaganda” if you like. What it boils down to is this: Most news articles now leave me with more questions than answers. And “fact checkers” don’t help.<\/p>\n\n\n

Most times, I don’t feel any better informed by reading the articles than by perusing the headlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you among those consuming less “news” in 2022? Axios published this headline recently: “News engagement plummets as Americans tune out“. Those are some serious drops in a year’s time – fewer eyes on both internet and cable! Online interactions cut in half.\u00a0 Axios concludes: “Survey data shows Americans have grown weary amid what feels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}