News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you - TopicsExpress



          

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier, theguardian *** News is irrelevant. *** News has no explanatory power *** News increases cognitive errors. *** News misleads. ... News leads us to walk around with the completely wrong risk map in our heads. So terrorism is over-rated. Chronic stress is under-rated. The collapse of Lehman Brothers is overrated. Fiscal irresponsibility is under-rated. Astronauts are over-rated. Nurses are under-rated. Bottomline: Society needs journalism – but in a different way. Investigative journalism is always relevant. We need reporting that polices our institutions and uncovers truth. But important findings dont have to arrive in the form of news. Long journal articles and in-depth books are good, too.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 01:39:13 +0000

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