The book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman presents an helpful idea to deal with it : information-action ratio. Basically, news about things you can

The book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman presents an helpful idea to deal with it : information-action ratio. Basically, news about things you can do nothing about are not news, they are noise. After reading the book, I started selected my news source based on that ratio. Now I only read tech news and local news.