Report Finds Traditional News Consumption Hits A New Low

There’s no way around it – Americans are tired of watching the news. A new report says that news consumption for local news, cable news, newspapers, and even online news has gone way down since just last year. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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There's no way around it. Americans are tired of watching the news. Boy, that is absolutely the truth. A new report says that news consumption for local news, cable news, newspapers, and even online news has gone way down just in the last year. Okay. Cutting, the old idea about cutting cables is come to true. I mean, it's happening. People are cutting their cables at record level. They're not watching traditional tv. They don't tune into the nightly news. You've got an entire generation that if they get their news, they're gonna get it online, you know, a show like this. Right?

Right. And even that is actually declining right now from where it was last year. What really shocked me because there is this new poll out that says, across the board, media outlets are seeing fewer viewers, whether it's traditional newspapers or your local news, cable news. It's all going down.

What are they watching? Because it's not affecting the, the media's still out. I mean, the online media continues to climb. Are are they watching Taylor Swift and Kelsey, or, I mean, I really wonder. I'd like to see it quantified.

Yeah. See that is what's interesting because we're not seeing a dip necessarily in online activity or in tv viewership overall.

Just the news.

It's just, well, when you think about it, because look, we do news every day. It is depressing and it is horrible on most days.

Yeah. Most days I don't want to do it.

So I can't really fault people for saying, you know what, I can't take this any more. So I, look, I get it. We all want to be there. But what shocked me the most was that even the older population, those are the news consumers, right? No. They've dropped.

Yeah. My my age. I mean, they're, 60 and up are supposed to be the news folks, but.

Even they are abandoning the traditional news outlets. And that is bad news for newspapers. But again, this is a problem that the media brought upon itself. And, so it could be that people are sick of the news, but I think a bigger part of it, like we always talk about, is that they're sick of watching the news, but not actually getting the news.

Now, I want you to watch this story. Al Gore is out on the speaking circuit. You know what his pitch is? That by Americans not watching mainstream media, our democracy is being hurt. That is his pitch. You must watch the nightly news or democracy will be at risk. Well, basically he's saying, you know, terrifying people not to watch propaganda or ideological propaganda, whether it's Fox or MSNBC, you must watch ideological propaganda or democracy. Where the hell did that come from? But the point, good luck with that. Because according to this story, people aren't watching the news. They're not.

Does he own stock in Comcast? I mean, is there something.

I have no idea.

Is he trying to become the next CNN president?

But who in the hell says you gotta watch corporate media, mainstream corporate media or democracy is at risk? Tell me how many times you can turn on the corporate media news, and see stories like we report, or that the Lever reports, or any of these other folks report that we do. It's not there. They don't even talk about it. So, what a peculiar thing for.

I mean, if people wanna be informed, the Lever, the Intercept, Truth Out, those are three just really great outlets.

Yeah. They are. And outta that, I would say Lever. That would be my first pick.

Yeah. Lever's definitely.

You can almost pick up, you can read the Lever regularly and know what's going on in the world. And it's stuff that you will never ever find on the nightly news because they tell.