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Do you mean, news have a cost to society? We should tax the presence of news on Bing’s homepage, in your iPhone notifications, on television?

I agree, but those in power don’t. Maybe we should rather tax hyperboles and keywords like “Alert!” at the beginning of tweets. “Breaking news!”. It’s so stressing I auto-ban authors who use them.

Any usage of the red color on television. Usage of flashes and running messages. We should come up with a way to measure the equivalent of loudness (TV, radio and ads are all standardized in average authorized loudness) but for alertness.

We should smoothe out the level of alertness, across all digital screens.