I’ve been ignoring most news since about mid January. My thought was that if it’s important enough, I’ll find out eventually, and I’ll reduce the amount of info

I’ve been ignoring most news since about mid January. My thought was that if it’s important enough, I’ll find out eventually, and I’ll reduce the amount of information noise going into my brain. That’s turned out to be true. But another unexpected effect was that it’s become much easier to spot bad news outside of my expertise. I’m center-left, and find it pretty easy to pick out nonsense from the right, but looking at centrist and left wing news now (even “good” sources) is horrifying. What passes for reason is astounding. I think that without the daily firehouse of bias reinforcement, it’s really helped me to see that, yeah, all news is really really terrible, and probably does more harm than good.