None of the above, there’s a difference between “news” and “current events”!
I have been willfully avoiding most “news” for several months now, and it has done WONDERS for my psyche! Shutting off the TV news and (most importantly) the comments sections of online sources really does clear much of the “noise”.
By design, most “news” reports (regardless of media) are geared to entrap one in a cycle of pessimism, where feelings of powerlessness in response to whatever terrible thing is being reported results in a anxiety-fueled desire to keep tuning-in, ever fearful of “missing something” (which would exacerbate the feeling of being out of control) and always looking for that first glimmer of resolution.
I do still keep up with current events, but now in a purposefully detached “facts only” manner where I spend minutes rather than hours per week doing so; this is mostly impossible if one looks only to the alphabet soup media conglomerates for the information.
