Afraid to Watch the News, Millions Turn to Fox “NEWS” — The Channel Offers Welcome Break from Reality, Psychologists Say NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – With unprecedented crises engulfing the world, millions of television viewers are finding the news too stressful to watch \u2013 and are turning to the Fox News Channel instead. \u201cThings are so bad in the world right now, many people are afraid to watch the news,\u201d says psychologist Davis Logsdon, who studies the relationship between news consumption and stress at the University of Minnesota.\u00a0 \u201cFor them, Fox News represents a welcome break from reality.\u201d Tracy Klugian, 37, a systems analyst from Lansing, Michigan, said that he was flipping the channels to find \u201canything but news\u201d and found himself watching Fox for the first time. \u201cThey had this guy on \u2013 something Beck I think his name was \u2013 and he was just going on and on, making stuff up,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cI was like, this is the kind of mindless junk I need right now.\u201d Mr. Klugian says he now records the program and watches it every day when he gets home for work: \u201cFor one hour at least, I know that I can kick [...]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Afraid to Watch the News, Millions Turn to Fox “NEWS” — The Channel Offers Welcome Break from Reality, Psychologists Say NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – With unprecedented crises engulfing the world, millions of television viewers are finding the news … Continue reading