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

This is OnPoint. I'm Begna Chokrabardi and this is Tyler who listens to the show

from Greensboro, North Carolina.

He takes in the news less and less every day.

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

consuming certain media, certain news outlets, only to be discouraged and beaten down

essentially by the hateful rhetoric and the being misled.

Tyler says his news diet is now mostly public radio and I have to say that's kind of bittersweet for me.

I'm grateful that Tyler still finds value in what he gets from public radio but it is disheartening

to hear that Tyler doesn't think there are many other news sources out there for him.

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

I'm just my friends and music and just anything positive in the news is not it.

Tyler is one of the 40% of Americans who say they avoid the news according to the Reuters Institute

2022 Digital News Report.

It's a startling number in a nation where ideally news and reliable information should be fundamental pillars of democracy.

So why are more and more Americans trying to avoid the news?

Now I can already almost hear you through the radio saying, hey, you know,

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