News consumption is plummeting. That’s both good and bad news for democracy.
Posted on AllSides July 6th, 2021
From The Left
OPINION
A recent analysis by Axios found that traffic to online news sites has dramatically declined in the months since President Biden’s inauguration. That’s both good and bad news for American democracy.
The good news is that this decline applies to sites of all political leanings. Web traffic, social media engagement and app user sessions declined by 18 percent for so-called mainstream sources, such as the New York Times; 17 percent for center-left sites (the Atlantic, Vox); and 27 percent for center-right ones (Fox News, the Daily Caller). It fell by even more on...
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