Fewer people in Switzerland are getting their daily information from traditional news media. Since 2009, the proportion of "news-deprived" people has almost doubled. Researchers at the University of Zurich say this as a fundamental problem for democracy. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The proportion of news-deprived people - those who consume little or no news, and if they do, it is mainly via social media - has increased by 0.7 percentage points compared to the previous year, according to this year's "Yearbook Quality of the Media" published by the Research Centre for the Public Sphere and Society (Fög) at the University of Zurich. According to the study, 46.4% of the Swiss population now belong to this group: an all-time high. In the study published on Monday, the researchers also concluded that this large group of news deprived people has significantly less knowledge about both political and social issues than the rest of the population. Within this ...
