I think Taleb was among the first to hit this tune.
" To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers. "
" The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him. "
" There is a certain category of fool—the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic "scientist", the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call "epistemic arrogance", this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved. "
" Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner. "