[ViktorRay]

Why not just read the news once a week?

I remember back many years ago I would only think about politics and all that when I read The Economist once every few days. Or I would read NewsWeek once a week.

Aside from that I wouldn’t think about the news at all.

Nowadays with smartphones the constant bombardment of news….thats what the new smoking. Not the news in of itself.

Actually if you look at the negative cognitive effects of constant news reading….I would say that reading the news is the new drinking rather than the new smoking.

[ClarityJones]

The purpose of "the news" is to confuse and delude. There's an argument to be made for less-frequent use, but staying away on Mon - Fri doesn't do much good if you open a paper on Sunday morning and believe what you're being told.