With hollowed out newsrooms, AI, misinformation and conspiracies running rife, an unwillingness to bring up anything in the news is becoming de rigueur for too many families going into the holiday season. Chris Couchman, head of content at Readly, asks if our reluctance to discuss news at the dinner table could be making a bad problem worse – and depriving our kids of a valuable opportunity to learn about the world around them.
Why we need to bring news back to the dinner table