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I find that I'm significantly happier when I don't read or watch the news. In this case; ignorance is bliss.

I've found that getting the majority of my news from offline sources helps.

The CBS Evening News eventually ends. The New York Times, and my local papers eventually end.

Internet news sites are geared to make you scroll and click forever to see more ads and slurp more data about you. In order to keep feeding that beast, the selection has to be necessarily be reduced in quality.

Being informed is important when you're > voting age, besides that you might end up in a world that you hate because you chose not to want to know what direction it was headed in.

There's the theory that you will get informed of what is important by other humans rather than the news. This assumes that one lives in a social way and talk to a wide range of people. It also means you won't get to know about celebrities or far off troubles.

If you read the news twice a week, you’re going to be plenty informed (and IMO actually better-informed) than if you binge-read headlines throughout the day.

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