[mvkel]

The difference these days seems to be that the frequency of the hysterical events has gone up. One every other month, rather than every other year.

What happens to a society that has been desensitized to mass-hysteria, where no single event can evoke a reaction? Is it a horseshoe, where we're so vigilant that nothing fazes us anymore? Do we lose our humanity in the process?

[Aloisius]

Some just learn to ignore news gossip.

[mvkel]

Slippery slope. I posit that there are news items that deserve real cause for concern, but because we're so overwhelmed with information, we throw it into the same "gossip" bucket with the rest of the slop.

[Aloisius]

Few news items ever rise to that level and fewer still deserve immediate attention.

Daily news is merely a first rough draft of history and I'd argue most people would be better off instead reading later drafts - after much of the confusion/gossip/rumor/panic that plagues daily news clears.

Sadly there's not a lot of news sources that limit themselves to writing articles about month+ old well-covered news.

[mvkel]

> Daily news is merely a first rough draft of history

Love this.

[whatevertrevor]

A lot of news that positions itself as "you should be concerned about this" seeks to exploit the "always alert ready to respond to an emergency" part of our brains.

In reality almost nothing truly deserves that kind of attention. But since humans are bad at separating important from urgent, news broadcasts will continue to exploit with "24/7 Breaking News".