Not sure why swombat got downvoted, he makes good points. Heck, once in a while, an HN submission for along the lines of "Why reading news is harmful and why yo

Not sure why swombat got downvoted, he makes good points. Heck, once in a while, an HN submission for along the lines of "Why reading news is harmful and why you shouldn't read it" goes by, and it gets upvoted a lot. What can the general public do about this? It's not like I can go to my family physician and tell him to use less antibiotics (he already doesn't; I'm in the Netherlands), and expect to make any kind of meaningful difference. This is one of those "tragedy of the commons" kind of problems that can only be solved if everybody cooperates.