In many countries, very few young people read newspapers or follow the news on TV. What do you think are the causes of this?

With the advent of technology and rapidly increased pace of life, spare

time

available to people has reduced drastically. Ambitions of achieving a high-life and excelling at work have

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lead to lesser younger people following the news or reading newspapers. In

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essay, we will discuss a few factors contributing to

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issue. For starters

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there has been a steep increase in urbanization in recent years.

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has led to

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lethora of new opportunities being presented to work, which has led to increased competition amongst youngsters for better job opportunities. Everyone needs

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digestible

content

, which can be consumed on the go.

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, reading a newspaper or watching

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ews on TV requires

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elatively greater amount of

time

, which the millennial generation cannot afford to spare.

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, while it is really convenient to read the news headlines on smartphones and can be done in-between activities, reading a newspaper would require

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ubstantial amount of

time

and preferably, a peaceful place as well.

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, a lot of news channels nowadays are fighting to get the top spot among the consumers, leading to the deterioration of the actual

content

being presented. Every other article is presented as breaking news and the essence of displaying factual

content

has gone for a toss.

Furthermore

, the majority of the

content

presented is negative and violent, since it easily grabs eyeballs.

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, recent news about the suicide of an actor was the headline story on every news channel, many of which displayed disturbing graphic images.

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has repelled the younger population away from televised news. To summarize,

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igher

time

required to read the newspaper, coupled with the reduced quality of

content

presented on TV, has driven the youngsters away from the news. Having said that, the flexibility provided by

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ontent presented on smartphones has been accepted with open arms and is here to stay.