Americans aren’t the voracious consumers of news they were during the Trump administration. Since 2018, the Knight Foundation and Gallup have asked a representative subsection of American adults how much news they are consuming. Between 2020 and 2021, the number who said they paid a “great deal” of attention to national news fell precipitously from 54% in November 2020 to 33% in December 2021. That is the lowest point since Knight and Gallup began surveying in 2018.
The drop in interest was most pronounced for domestic news. The share of Americans who report consuming a great deal of local and international news remained the same, at 21% and 12% respectively, between 2020 and 2021.
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