News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
www.theguardian.com
News is bad for you. It leads to fear and aggression. It hinders your creativity and makes you sick. We should stop consuming it, says Rolf Dobelli, who's abstained for years

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12894133

I read this article recently and I was just thinking about my news consumption and how much I want to be affected by it.

I feel like it is important because shit is going on in the world however I usually don’t change my habits much over it.

I also think that there should be a middle ground somewhere but I can’t think of it so if anyone of you have ideas please share them.

      • Magiccupcake@startrek.websiteEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        There are other elections throughout the year… Midterms at the federal level, and often state and local elections too.

        Admittedly how it works in the us, but I’m sure still applies in other countries, maybe not everywhere.

        • Blaze@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I used to live in a country where they would just bunch them all together: local, country, EU all in one day. Kind of sad, because it gives the impression that your vote only counts once in a few year, as I said in my previous comment. No midterms.

  • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    I avoid it as a rule. Anything important I will hear about and can research further.

  • Orbital@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    The middle ground is to put a defined limit on news consumption, like 5 minutes per day. That’s enough to stay aware of major events but not so much that you’d necessarily get wrapped up in excessive worrying about irrelevant items. NPR, the BBC, and probably others, offer 5-minute audio news briefs updated hourly. These are available to stream on demand like a podcast. I wouldn’t recommend listening hourly but the point is they’re up to date at any single time in the day, which you might choose as your daily news blast. Then just tune out, literally and figuratively.

    • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      CBC as well, for the 5 minute hourly podcast. Listening to that once a day is honestly more than enough for me.

  • Blaze@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Kind of reflects my approach to news nowadays.

    I try to keep in touch with the local news, my neighborhood, my town, my province, my country, my continent. Anything beyond that I follow from far away.