Brexit isn’t the reason people are avoiding the news – but The Guardian only touches on the real reason, perhaps because it is too close to home.
People are turning away from mainstream news outlets because they are perceived to be pushing a particular agenda:
Britons also say they are losing trust in the news, with the authors attributing this to increased political polarisation: “Even the most trusted brands like the BBC are seen by many as pushing or suppressing agendas – especially over polarising issues like Brexit and climate change.”
Doesn’t that seem more plausible than Brexit fatigue, when
according to one BBC insider, the BBC News website attracted 28 million unique visitors in January on the day of parliament’s first meaningful vote on Theresa May’s Brexit day, while 25 million checked the website the following day when it was covering the no-confidence vote in the prime minister?
Brexit certainly hasn’t harmed This Site’s audience. Vox Political‘s highest-ever visitor total was recorded on March 23 this year, when I reported on the ‘Revoke Brexit’ e-petition that became the most-signed petition on the government’s website: 93,008 views.
It’s certainly possible that some Britons are giving up on the news in order to avoid the blanket coverage of Brexit that has made it headline news practically every day since before the EU referendum.
But when
alleged Brexit fatigue among the British public has also been used by some news programmes to justify declining audiences,
it seems far more likely that the news media are trying to find an excuse that does not mention the possibility that they are pushing their own agenda.
Doesn’t it? Or is that paranoid conspiracy-theorising?
Source: Third of Britons say they avoid news out of Brexit frustration | Media | The Guardian
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