Stop Reading the News

Some years ago I've decided to stop consuming news, at least in the most common ways: newspapers, televised news, news websites, ... preferring to rely on friends, second hand advises found through different networks and deeper analysis.

I did this because I felt being constantly in this "news flux" heightened my anxiety about the world and its course. Nowadays I'm also considering backing off totally from social medias because I find they provoke the exact same thing by spreading only negative and anxious news all the time.

So this book wouldn't really change my mind as this was something I was already doing. However it gave me a lot of arguments for what I was doing, and I could totally relate to the expressed benefits. In a time where we are bathed in more and more "news" and with those becoming more and more generated through AI, I think they are doing way more harm than any remote good. I feel that as a whole we are becoming more and more anxious and prone to a black and white vision of the world, while thinking that we are better informed than yesterday.

If you feel you're getting stressed by the news lately, I'd suggest to give this book and its ideas I real try, it might do you tremendous good!

"The more news you consume, the more frequently you’ll come across confirmatory information, even if your opinions are false. These days the news no longer functions as a test probe, poking holes in inaccurate opinions (as was formerly the case, when there wasn’t much news around); rather, it cements them."