I don't avoid reading news, I just avoid reading it continuously. If there is an ongoing story I am interested in (like the war in Ukraine) I check in on it onc

I don't avoid reading news, I just avoid reading it continuously. If there is an ongoing story I am interested in (like the war in Ukraine) I check in on it once every couple of days, via sources I have some trust in. Eventually, I read a long-form article about it, but those take a few weeks or months to be written. What I don't do is check social media every 15 minutes, or watch 24/7 cable news. I think obsession is the delivery mechanism for problems like anxiety, depression, or radicalization, not the news itself.