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The Associated Press
Published: Mon, June 02, 2008 - 8:52 am
Last Updated: Monday, June 02, 2008 - 8:58 am
Last Updated: Monday, June 02, 2008 - 8:58 am
being worn out by a bombardment of facts and updates from the
media.
The Context-Based Research Group, in a study commissioned by The
Associated Press, suggests that young readers are suffering from
news fatigue.
A key conclusion was that participants were eager to read
in-depth, quality reporting. But a deluge of snippets of news in
headline format gets in the way. As one researcher puts it
"consumers' news diets are out of balance due to the
over-consumption of facts and headlines."
Researchers followed the news habits of 18 men and women between
the ages of 18 and 34 in six cities in the United States, Britain
and India. The results will be presented Monday in a 71-page report
at the World Editors Forum in Sweden.
The AP has adopted a new model of delivering news based on the
study's findings.
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They could only find 18 people to follow. How can they figure that thier finds are accurate with so few participants?