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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Americans are avoiding the news. What can journalists do?

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

On Point, News, Npr, Daily, Talk Show

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Ripley is a journalist, and even she, like millions of Americans, decided to turn off the news. So what needs to change? Ripley has an answer, and it begins with giving people hope.

Joe Segal, Amanda Ripley and David Bornstein join Meghna Chakrabarti.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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Topic is 40% of Americans avoid the news and you wanted to know why.

0:31.9

This is on point.

0:32.9

I'm Begna Chocro Barri and this is Tyler who listens to the show from Greensboro, North

0:37.8

Carolina.

0:39.3

He takes in the news less and less every day.

0:42.2

The little disheartening still wants to do better and to want to try to help and in doing

0:51.2

so consuming certain media, certain news outlets.

0:55.8

Only to be discouraged and beaten down essentially by the hateful rhetoric and the being less.

1:08.5

Tyler says his news diet is now.

1:11.0

I'm just going to say that's kind of bittersweet for me.

1:15.6

I'm grateful that Tyler still finds value in what he gets from public radio.

1:20.8

But it is disheartening to hear that Tyler doesn't think there are many other news sources

1:25.4

out there for him.

1:26.9

I personally avoid it as much as possible and steep myself in as much positivity as I possibly

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