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Consumers avoid anxiety-provoking news, study findsPeople avoid news because it is "emotionally taxing — a source of uncertainty and lack of control,"” according to a new study. Indeed, several people interviewed use the phrase "doom and gloom" to describe news, Benjamin Toff & Rasmus Kleis Nielsen report in "How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety As a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement." Source: MediaPostView or Download: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/377893/consumers-avoid-anxiety-provoking-news-study-find.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline&utm_campaign=127652&hashid=G4DZrnuD0q3IKLS7M64YXJlsEt4 |
