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by BeetleB 1578 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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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.
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

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