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by ziggus 1575 days ago
Hard disagree.

Watching/reading/consuming modern news is too stress-inducing (as it is designed to be) just to have something to chat about or become more well-informed about issues that in large part have no bearing on me.

I pay attention to issues that are important to me at scopes that matter - state and municipal. Everything else is noise.
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BeetleB 1575 days ago
> Watching/reading/consuming modern news is too stress-inducing

Let's not project. I was a news junkie for years, and the news itself was not stress inducing.

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asdff 1574 days ago
The news itself is often pretty boring but the tone being used is meant to be stressful and keep you reading with baited breath. Looking at stale news like a web archive from cnn from months ago is always funny. Almost hysterical titles and sentences for things that just end up not mattering or being significant at all, but its all written up as if Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor and war were declared.
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Domenic_S 1574 days ago
You're both projecting, and the only answer is data.

This APA survey shows that:

> While most adults (95 percent) say they follow the news regularly, 56 percent say that doing so causes them stress

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/11/lowest-point

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BeetleB 1574 days ago
Which is consistent with what I said: It is not stressful to many. I did not claim it didn't stress some people out.
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