Not sure I agree with this. After the 2016 election I was really wired into news. I watched a lot of CNN and was tuned in the 24 hour news cycle, after a couple

Not sure I agree with this. After the 2016 election I was really wired into news. I watched a lot of CNN and was tuned in the 24 hour news cycle, after a couple of months I decided I didn't really like the way this news was delivered but still wanted to be informed. I turned to podcasts more and now listen to podcasts on policy, politics, technology and economics and I feel much more informed than the average citizen and intellectually stimulated. I think we should work on increasing the quantity of quality news as opposed to telling people to stay away from it. Full disclosure, here's my current media "diet" - Hacker news of course. - NYT subscription - NYT The Daily podcast (news of the day) - NPR Politics Podcast - Marketplace Podcast (economics) - Vox's Ezra Klein Show (wide range of policy experts interviewed) - Vox's The Weeds (conversations on political / economic policy) - Vox's Worldly (foreign affairs) - Marginal Revolution (economics) Admittedly it's a left leaning viewpoint and I'd like to find more conservative outlets but haven't been able to find interesting ones. I listened to Sam Harris for a while but over the past year he's shown a deep flaw w.r.t his views on race and unwillingness to be challenged.