Despite pollster Stuart Elway’s suspicion that engagement with politics might be dropping off since the November 2024 presidential election, engagement is high among Washingtonians of all political persuasions, but most of their focus seems to be on national headlines.
As a recovering doomscroller, I’m not necessarily surprised by that data point: Who among us hasn’t lost hours of our one wild and precious life to the daily onslaught of breaking national news? But as a news editor at a local outlet, this preoccupation with national politics is a reminder that we have some work to do if we’re going to get eyeballs focused on coverage of this Washington – not
→ Continue reading at Crosscut
