According to a new AP poll, about two-thirds of Americans have grown exhausted following Donald Trump’s election and are now limiting their consumption of political media.

Summary

A new AP poll reveals widespread political fatigue among Americans, with two-thirds limiting political media consumption post-Trump’s election.

Viewership on CNN and MSNBC has plummeted, with declines of 35-54%, as many Democrats and independents step away from politics.

In contrast, Fox News has seen a 12% ratings surge, dominating cable news.

The trend mirrors post-election slumps in previous cycles, though the erosion is sharper this year.

Some suggest focusing less on Trump and more on broader issues to re-engage disenchanted audiences.

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
    251·
    17 hours ago

    This is the way the world ends

    This is the way the world ends

    Not with a bang, but a “yeah, whatever.”

    • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      15 hours ago

      I don’t know about others, but I hope maybe it is similar with others.

      I stopped watching 24/7 channels, I no longer trust CNN. Washington Post and LA Times showed their colors during the election, showing exactly that the owners purchased them to manipulate readers’ opinion.

      I since then set up recurring donations to ProPublica, local NPR station, I also found a local news paper that still seems to do local journalism. The rest I intend to rely on Lemmy and Reddit.

      I stopped caring what trump is saying (he always lies) and instead intend to care about what he does. There are things that are out of my control, but intend to support any way I can politicians, judges, public employees and others that will fight him. And when it comes time to protest I intend to do my part.

      I just don’t want to waste my energy on pointless BS that 24/7 news media was doing 2017-2020. If trump says he intends to take over Greenland why should I rile up about it and how can I change anything. It is likely a BS anyway to tire us up.

      Also I highly recommend On Freedom: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. This book was published in 2017 when he started his first term and outlines what things we should watch for and not let him do if we still want to have a democracy.

      • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
        9·
        16 hours ago

        Well yeah.

        Putin is the role model for Trump and Musk and the rest of the would-be autocrats.

        Their explicit goal is, and has been all along, to establish a plutocratic/kleptocratic oligarchy as much like Putin’s as possible.

        And everything they’ve done and are doing is bent specifically to that goal.

      • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
        1·
        14 hours ago

        Pshhh Putin stays in power cause the people love him. He won with 88% of the vote! And if you’re going to sit there and tell me that Russia of all places didn’t have a fair and free election, well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
      3·
      5 hours ago

      The information environment that has been cultivated in the US was always leading here. The effect the internet had on news media didn’t help. For every politically engaged person on whatever side there are 20 low information voters voting based on general vibes and gut instinct and little else. And their instincts suck.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

      I’m listening to the audiobook “It Came From Something Awful” and at one point, when referencing Gen X, and how SICK they/we were of seeing everything they/we tried to cultivate being colonized by corporate America and then sold back to them embodied Cobain’s “oh well, whatever, nevermind…”

      I highly recommend the book, by the way…makes for a good retrospective on how we got to where we are, and it’s not falling into the stupid generational warfare horseshit that lays the blame for this at the feet of boomers (and Gen X or the Greatest Generation). At least no so far, anyway - I’m not done yet.