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Too much war, too many crises: people are exhausted by bad news, says a study. How do you manage to get them interested in the greatest catastrophe – climate change?
Kdo you name that? You watch the news, say, the daily news. And breathe a sigh of relief because the first article is dedicated to a new draft law, pension reform or the election victory of your desired party. No war, no disasters. Or better: no new war, no new catastrophes. Because of course there have always been wars and catastrophes in the world, most of which can only be ignored quite well. For two and a half years, since Corona and the war in Ukraine, it has become increasingly difficult. You can hardly avoid the gloomy news – unless you deliberately avoid it. You watch, read, just don’t hear any more news. And this reaction seems to be getting more and more popular.
The Reuters Digital News Report was released last week, a study that surveyed over 93,000 people in 46 countries about their news consumption. The press release from the Hamburg Hans Bredow Institute, which carried out the German part of the study, was entitled: “Germans are tired of the news”. Although the proportion of those who read the news several times a week is still very high at 92 percent according to the survey, only 57 percent of adult Internet users stated that they were interested in the current world situation. That was ten percentage points less than in the previous year. Of the 18 to 24-year-old participants, it was just 31 percent, 19 percentage points fewer than before. This drastic decline surprised him, says Sascha Hölig, who helped carry out the study. “It’s just too much, people are exhausted.”
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