During a new interview to promote a nonprofit news organization that is focused on elevating underserved communities, Meghan Markle gave her thoughts on the current state of journalism.

Meghan told Emily Ramshaw, the co-founder and CEO of The 19th News, that she is not a fan of the tabloid-style media coverage that is currently the norm.

“I think what’s so fascinating, at least from my standpoint and my personal experience in the past couple years, it’s the headline alone, the clickbait alone makes an imprint,” Meghan said. “That is part of how we start to view the world, how we interact with other people. And I think there’s so much toxicity out there in what is being referred to. “

“My husband and I talk about it often, this economy for attention, right. That is what is monetizable right now when you’re looking at the digital space and media. And so if you’re just trying to grab someone’s attention and keep it you’re going for something salacious versus something truthful,” she added. “And I think that once we can get back to the place, which is what you’re creating here, which is why I think it’s so important, where people are just telling the truth and they’re reporting and telling it through a compassionate or empathetic lens, it’s going to help bind people as community in a way that I think [at] the moment we’re feeling much more of a disconnect in a space where we could be feeling more of a connection.”

This is a cause that is close to Meghan’s heart, as she and her husband Prince Harry are currently suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline website over five articles that published excerpts from a handwritten letter that she wrote privately to her father, Thomas Markle.

Later in the interview, Meghan praised “nonpartisan” news outlets, as she expressed hopes that they will inspire younger generations who want to make a political or social impact.

“The power of one person’s influence in the media” can “shape an entire movement or way of thinking or even an ideology or an identification if women have their voice heard as equally,” Markle said as she referenced how British journalist Charles Hand coined the word “suffragette” in 1906, which was used as a point to illustrate that influence can shape the world.

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