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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 26, 2024

Americans - exhausted by political news - tuning out
https://apnews.com/article/politics-fatigue-trump-gop-democrat-cnn-msnbc-b67aebae1a0853a1a3170ac588100bbd

Ignorance, apathy a consequence of
far-right dogmatism
culture wars
populist rhetoric
social media polarization
reflection/echo chambers

Post-truthism | alternative facts
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#FarRight #CultureWars #ToxicRhetoric
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #theocracy
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #billionaires #libertarianism #disinformation

Americans are tuning out of political news, AP-NORC poll finds

A lot of Americans, after an intense presidential election campaign, are looking for a break in political news. That's evident in cable television news ratings and a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll found nearly two-thirds of Americans saying they've found the need recently to cut down on their consumption of political and government news. That's particularly true among Democrats following President-elect Donald Trump's victory, although a significant number of Republicans and independents feel the same way. Cable networks MSNBC and CNN are really seeing a slump. That's also happened in years past for networks that particularly appeal to supporters of one candidate.

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Americans are tuning out of political news, AP-NORC poll finds