A few years ago I gave up reading the news because I felt it was stressing me out, and offered little if any benefit. Today I read a great piece on how there are so many negative effects to reading the news, with so little positive, such as:
- News misleads
- News is irrelevant
- News has no explanatory power
- News is toxic to your body
- News increases cognitive errors
- News inhibits thinking
- News works like a drug
- News wastes time
- News makes us passive
- News kills creativity
I strongly recommend you read the full article.
