
So much for youth being able to multi-task and be more efficient. Studying "news consumption patterns of young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 in Britain, India and the United States," the Associated Press found that young people "experienced news fatigue, meaning they were overloaded with facts and updates and had trouble connecting to more in-depth stories. Participants yearned for quality and in-depth reporting, but had difficulty immediately accessing such content. This experience was common across participants’ race, gender and geographic location. Additionally, the anthropologists noted that the news habits of the young consumers were dramatically different from those of previous generations." Perhaps because they're being conditioned to treat their Facebook News Feed like the New York Times.

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