But I get the feeling many young people don't pay much attention to any non-entertainment or non-sports news. I have no hard facts to back me up...just anecdotal evidence. I'd like to be proved wrong, but I don't think I am.
People pay attention to what interests them. As I get older and the news gets more and more repetitive, I think this is like the 5th time in my life we’ve had an illegal immigrant crisis, I lose more and more interest in “hard” news. The only thing that ever really changes anymore seems to be the vehemence, we have the same arguments we had 5 and 10 years ago, only with a lot more name calling. Can’t really blame anybody for walking away from the whole thing. They’re well enough informed to know both sides are full of crap, anything after that is just redundant.