Crisis fatigue and despondency about the potential for change
With so many issues competing for public attention and resources, the stakeholders associated with each issue can feel systemic pressure to present the impact of their issues, and the urgency of the action required, in as dramatic a way as possible; a tendency that tends to be amplified by the commercial media's attraction to simple and dramatic headlines. This pattern can encourage public fatigue towards the language of crisis and a sense of despondency about the prospects for systemic change.