Any "hard" news is so politically charged and crisis-mongering anymore that I think people are being turned off. Even if you agree with the politics, news is just throwing red meat into the water. Hopefully people are getting exhausted by perpetual outrage and perpetual crisis. In that way, moving to soft news items makes sense.
They could bring this guy in...
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“Soft” news can be ‘hard’ news depending on what it is...sarc
I prefer serious straight news that isn’t spin.
The problem is news is spun as political propaganda to advance a political faction.
I made foxnews.com/ my go to for quick National News last fall.
Their new format makes it even easier to find what is happening versus the ABCNNBCB$ WOKE/BLM B$ posing as news.
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