Following the news these days can be exhausting. “Voters Worn Out by Political News” declared a front-page story in yesterday’s New York Times. The story quoted average Americans across the country who are so overwhelmed by the volume of specifics about impeachment and so doubtful of facts, given all the “fake news” out there, that they’ve simply stopped keeping up. The story was full of quotes from voters like Jerre Corrigan who didn’t bother to watch the impeachment hearings.
“It’s harder now — they want to grab you with those headlines,” said Ms. Corrigan on Wednesday night from her home in Stevens Point, Wis. “Trump did this, Trump did that. You have to go in and really research it. And I don’t think a lot of people do that.”
We can all empathize with Corrigan. The news is often as dispiriting as it is complex and confusing.