People have started describing the experience the same way: standing under a waterfall of perpetual bad news. The volume is not occasional. It is constant. And a growing number of people are responding the same way — by walking away.
According to the Reuters Institute's 2025 Digital News Report, 69% of Canadians at least occasionally avoid the news now. Globally, 40% of people report they at least sometimes or often avoid news consumption — the highest figure ever recorded. The consistent reasons people give: the news puts them in a bad mood. They feel overwhelmed. They feel powerless to act.
