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.
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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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