tune out

“A lot of people tune out of things like the shutdown … but almost everybody knows some element of the Epstein scandal.”

“You need to start from scratch with the basics and tune out all the noise,” Murdoch said.

Even though he is not particularly concerned about his own financial security, it is difficult to tune out the overall uncertainty surrounding him.

“We believe that investors have become conditioned to tune out the noise from the political drama.”

The whole point of picking off precisely those who are either too vulnerable to fight back, or too famous to warrant your concern, or too unpopular for you to do anything but shrug, is that it leaves ample space for everyone to be exhausted, to tune out, to stare down at the table.