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hunter

(38,264 posts)
9. News is bad for you.
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 12:35 PM
Mar 2015
News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. The solution? Stop consuming it altogether

Rolf Dobelli
Friday 12 April 2013 15.00 EDT

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

In the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obesity, diabetes) and have started to change our diets. But most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking. That's why we experience almost no saturation. Unlike reading books and long magazine articles (which require thinking), we can swallow limitless quantities of news flashes, which are bright-coloured candies for the mind. Today, we have reached the same point in relation to information that we faced 20 years ago in regard to food. We are beginning to recognise how toxic news can be.


I quit television altogether, and I only read the local paper. I've been much happier, and I don't feel disconnected at all.

Seeing the television and mass media generated storms blowing through DU gives me a greater awareness of how much news is pure propaganda, fog, and utter bullshit.

Hillary's emails? Please...
This kind of sucks... [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 OP
i abandonded msnbc a long time ago Romeo.lima333 Mar 2015 #1
Of course I'm gerneralizing DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #2
Turn on liberal radio. It's a sanity saver for me nt riderinthestorm Mar 2015 #3
Look at it as an opportunity to listen to more music BeyondGeography Mar 2015 #4
Um, that is what music videos are for LOL snooper2 Mar 2015 #5
Yep, yep giftedgirl77 Mar 2015 #6
Well, sometimes you need the madness too... snooper2 Mar 2015 #8
lol, I say word. giftedgirl77 Mar 2015 #12
the media propaganda is all there will be to 'inform' the masses spanone Mar 2015 #7
Exactly. If MSNBC stops the liberals then forget educating anyone for the elections. And we already jwirr Mar 2015 #10
News is bad for you. hunter Mar 2015 #9
Find something on the radio BainsBane Mar 2015 #11
Unless, like me 2naSalit Mar 2015 #13
You can find a lot of radio stations online BainsBane Mar 2015 #14
I do that but 2naSalit Mar 2015 #15
It takes a little bit to get used to her voice BainsBane Mar 2015 #16
Oh yeah, the CDC 2naSalit Mar 2015 #17
Also I think you can download podcasts BainsBane Mar 2015 #18
I'll have to look into that 2naSalit Mar 2015 #20
Know what sucks in general? Channels dedicated to news. Quantess Mar 2015 #19
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