Why have Americans and the news media lost interest in the coronavirus pandemic?

Kent Kroeger
10 min readJun 16, 2020

By Kent R. Kroeger (June 15, 2020)

U.S. Cable News Network Coverage of the Coronavirus Pandemic (Source: GDELT Project)

There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

Jerry Seinfeld

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Kent Kroeger

I am a survey and statistical consultant with over 30 -years experience measuring and analyzing public opinion (You can contact me at: kroeger98@yahoo.com)