"Why You Should Stop Reading News" (
accident analysis posts)
Our obsession with being informed makes it hard to think long-term. We spend hours consuming news (
posts) because we want to be informed. The problem is that ill-considered posts do not make us informed – quite the opposite. The more news we consume, the more misinformed we become.
News is, by definition, something that doesn’t last. It exists for only a moment before it changes. As news has become easier to distribute and cheaper to produce, the quality has decreased, and the quantity has increased, making it nearly impossible to find the signal in the noise.
Rarely do we stop to ask ourselves questions about what we consume:
Is this good for me? Is this dense with detailed information? Is this important? Is this going to stand the test of time? Is the person writing someone who is well-informed on the issue? Asking those questions makes it clear the news isn’t good for you.
What can you do differently?
Part of the answer is to spend less time consuming information and more time thinking.
https://fs.blog/stop-reading-news/