The news – why do we subject ourselves to it?

How many times do you check your mobile feed for the latest news? And how many hours do you spend listening or watching to news. Speaking for myself, I don’t remember 99% of the news I read daily.

Rolf Dobelli, author of The Art of Thinking Clearly argues that consuming news has a darker side. He argues that the daily repetition of news about things we can’t act upon makes us passive. It saps our energy. It grinds us down. It impacts our ability to make good decisions and think clearly. It attacks our creativity. “I would not be surprised if news consumption at least partially contributes to the widespread disease of depression,” he writes.

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Antonia Case – New Philosopher

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New Year Issue: Editor’s Note

“News is no big deal. It is the cheapest item around. Most of us navigate through the maze of newsbreaks with our sensibilities intact. They are a visual blur. They are sounds and accents. They are headlines trying to be clever and passages pretty banal. They are words in a hurry. They are breathless soundbites. In the end, we are not better than what we were yesterday. We are not smarter than what we were till the last paragraph. The weary ordinariness of being in the 24/7 media age is frightening.”

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