Study: Millennials think today’s news is ‘garbage, lies … propaganda’
The author a new book suggests that in the future there won’t be any news consumers.
Millennials think today’s news consists of “garbage, lies” and “propaganda,” and that it’s “boring,” according to Paula Poindexter, a University of Texas journalism professor.
This assessment of millennials’ perception of the news is revealed in her new book, “Millennials, News, and Social Media: Is News Engagement a Thing of the Past?”
Millennials, also know as members of Generation Y, are generally considered anyone born in the late 1970s/early ’80s to early 2000s.
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