I disagree that people aren’t tuning out of news. I talk to people in real life that keep news at a distance. They don’t want to engage, they know it’s a black hole anxiety inducing clickbait. It seems a common topic of discussion is our parents who get get off cable news or being fed up with political twitter/Facebook and deciding to no longer use social media because of news.

There’s a great article from NY Times about “The America That Isn’t Polarized” people not sucked into the correct news, just doing their jobs (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/upsh...)