On a similar note, I quit watching the news and reading the newspaper. It doesn't make me happy. It really doesn't make me "informed", it only makes me capable

On a similar note, I quit watching the news and reading the newspaper. It doesn't make me happy. It really doesn't make me "informed", it only makes me capable of parroting some soundbites my favorite pundit said. Lastly the news is terribly politicised nowadays and tends to focus only on the bad. Plenty of research proving the link between anxiety/depression and news consumption. What is there to gain by watching the news anyways... If I want to find out more about something, i'd rather listen to a long form podcast by a professor, than read something a journalist copypasted. Or maybe read an article here and find comments by so many people from so many different viewpoints and cultural backgrounds.