In media circles there is a popular, if disquieting, new phrase this month: "Selective news avoidance."
It comes from the newest edition of the annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report.
While most people "remain engaged and use the news regularly, we find that many also increasingly choose to ration or limit their exposure to it — or at least to certain types of news," the researchers wrote. And they cited a variety of reasons for doing so. READ MORE