PRESS GAZETTE – 12/06/2019
Freddy Mayhew
More than a third (35 per cent) of UK news consumers are actively avoiding the news with a majority (71 per cent) of them giving Brexit as the reason why, according the latest Reuters Digital News Report.
The proportion of people who say they often or sometimes avoid the news in the UK in 2019 is up 11 per cent on 2017 (when the question was last asked) and has been “driven by boredom, anger, or sadness over Brexit”, the report claims.