While some interviewees seemed resigned to feeling they could do little to influence politics, others found it frustrating — almost as though political news coverage were rubbing their noses in issues over which they had no control. Many saw avoiding political news as part of a larger strategy for managing their emotions. Rather than engage with news that would leave them feeling sad about the state of the world and frustrated about their own impotence to change it, they chose to conserve their emotional energy to focus on their own problems.

Anything that doesn't help you with your own problems is worthless to you. Most of this site is really just writing practice for me; which is why there are long stretches where I don't post here.

I like that they also covered resistance to so called "good" watchdog journalism; as who and what they cover ends up telling you everything you want to know. Even the Journalists can't really attack the biggest targets because the attack will bounce off and there's no money in it. So Journalism can only change things that don't matter.