The latest report, UN scientists are warning we are on course for devastating changes to our climate.

The page comes just 10 days after another shooting massacre at a supermarket in Buffalo.

A major military operation against Ukraine. Loud explosions have been now heard.

The Russian assault. The Commerce Department is showing that the economy declined and the

latest sign that we may be headed for a recession. As some economists are now saying, at

least 30 people, including four children, are now reported dead. Now search in rescue team,

another earth-shattering act of violence, another mass shooting in America.

Are you tired of all that? Well, you're not alone.

Hi, I'm Arben Alme, and this is To the Point.

Last month, the Reuters Institute reported that 42% of American surveyed

were avoiding the news.

And it's not just consumers of news. Even journalists are turning it off.

That's according to Amanda Ripley at a Washington Post op-ed titled, I stopped reading the news.

Is it me? Or the product? She got more than a thousand responses from fellow journalists as well as other readers.

She's been a journalist for 20 years.

She worked for Time Magazine. She's author of High Conflict, How We Got Trapped and How We Get Out.

And she has a podcast of her own on Slate called How Too. Amanda, great to have you aboard.

Thanks for having me. It's good to be here. You covered terrorist attacks. You covered hurricanes. You covered plane crashes, you say.

And you have been actively avoiding the news now for years. How come?

Well, you know, at first, I couldn't figure it out. I just knew that I would do my usual thing of reading, you know, several newspapers in the morning,

um, online or offline. And then I would just feel depleted about five or six years ago.

I'd feel sort of demoralized, hopeless. And then I couldn't do the writing that I needed to do

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