Channel 4bossAlex Mahonhas urged UK intervention on public servicenewsto help resist sliding into an American news swamp.
Lets compare to somewhere else.
Here, in the UK, we can still resist sliding into an American news swamp.
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This compares to 40% of those aged 45 to 65.
This should not surprise us, added Mahon.
Mahon described young peoples relationship with news as social, ubiquitous, ambient and contested.
We see confusing and conflicting signals about information consumption, she said.
Students dont want to read books at university when they can get AI extracted clips.
But three-hour podcast episodes are something we quite gladly commit to.
We are moving to engaging more with how people say things than what they say.
Mahon was positive about the UKs ability to wrestle with the issues at play.
We must start thinking about objective truth and validated news as a public good, Mahon concluded.
