[acomjean]

The news can be really annoying and upsetting at times (Almost click-baity). They like to pump you full of fear with the "teases" so you pay attention (10 things in your kitchen that might kill you! Watch the news, we'll tell you what they are).

Bruce Scheiner said it best in a podcast: I'm paraphrasing: generally if its news, you don't have to worry about it because its uncommon, thats why its news.

I'm happier not paying much attention to it as well. That being said if you live in democracy its kinda important to at least pay some attention to what is going on so you can make informed voting decisions.

If you can find a local source of news, the information is more actionable and usefull. In boston the public radio does an interview/local news radio show [1] that runs 3 hours daily. Its kind of funny too which helps. And we have a news magazine called Chronicle [2]which documents interesting stuff going on in the area.

[1]http://wgbhnews.org/ [2]http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle