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Hard disagree. Watching/reading/consuming modern news is too stress-inducing (as it is designed to be) just to have something to chat about or become more well
by ziggus 5y ago
Hard disagree.
Watching/reading/consuming modern news is too stress-inducing (as it is designed to be) just to have something to chat about or become more well-informed about issues that in large part have no bearing on me.
I pay attention to issues that are important to me at scopes that matter - state and municipal. Everything else is noise.
- BeetleB 5y ago> Watching/reading/consuming modern news is too stress-inducing Let's not project. I was a news junkie for years, and the news itself was not stress inducing.
- Domenic_S 5y agoYou're both projecting, and the only answer is data. This APA survey shows that: > While most adults (95 percent) say they follow the news regularly, 56 percent say that doing so causes them stress https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/11/lowest-point https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/11/lowest-point
- BeetleB 5y agoWhich is consistent with what I said: It is not stressful to many. I did not claim it didn't stress some people out.
- asdff 5y agoThe news itself is often pretty boring but the tone being used is meant to be stressful and keep you reading with baited breath. Looking at stale news like a web archive from cnn from months ago is always funny. Almost hysterical titles and sentences for things that just end up not mattering or being significant at all, but its all written up as if Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor and war were declared.