Crisis readers tuned out by 2012 due to information fatigue

Evidence

Furthermore, as if that weren’t bad enough, no one volunteers to relive a nightmare; what they want is to be rousted back to the comforts of consciousness. The latter-day appeal of these crisis books seems to have become limited to those who harbor a penchant for crunch porn. By 2012, it seems most people had begun to tune out most serious discussions, and flee the tsunami of l’esprit de l’escalier. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 26

Categorization

• CANDY: ‘Crunch porn’ is a fun coinage explaining why crisis coverage peters out.
• XREF: connects to: Attention-crisis discourse has become nostalgic, not futuristic — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 398; Short experimental news exposure measurably shifts perceived problem importance

Broader Connections

• Attention-crisis discourse has become nostalgic, not futuristic #corroborates (0.82) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 398
• Short experimental news exposure measurably shifts perceived problem importance #corroborates (0.78)