Another approach is to accept news as it is: entertainment. The same way we're not looking at documentaries on Amazon frogs and arguing if watching them led to

Another approach is to accept news as it is: entertainment. The same way we're not looking at documentaries on Amazon frogs and arguing if watching them led to any improvements in our daily life, we shouldn't expect random news to be actionable or useful. Sure there is local and national info that is beneficial, but those can be earned in way more efficient ways on other media (for instance offical accounts on Twitter were my go-to for my local council's announcements and govs policy updates, and they also posted it on their respective PR pages). Actually I really wish we 100% stopped alluding as news and journalists as a primary source of information: press conferences and somewhat official interviews should always have a directly accessible feed of the whole thing, uncut, and distributed by the entity opening the event. Having to go through second hand reporting and selected tidbits to understand what was happening there is just nonsense.