I recently wrote a post about curating the news so as to keep yourself from being driven insane by it. These ten tips, presented in summary form, are:
1. Carefully time the occasion and quantity of your news intake. (Avoid social media and anything with clickbait, only look at the news when you want to do so, read rather than watch, ignore what isn't important, and preview what may be important before diving in.)
2. Avoid news aggregators. Just keep a short list of sites you find worthwhile and consult those.
3. Take everything they say with a "grain of salt.
4. Don't get sucked into following things from minute to minute, day to day--precisely because they probably won't have more information for you--and indeed think about checking the news only weekly, or even less often than that.
5. Remember that understanding the news means real research--which is the more reason to avoid anything more than a glance unless you really want to know what's going on.
6. Favor those news outlets which rather than hiding behind a pretense of "objectivity" analyze and explain.
7. Remember that not every side in an argument is worthy of respect. Make the judgment.
8. Pay less attention to politics, more to policy.
9. Remember that there is no perfect insulation from the media's idiocies--and you will have to exercise restraint to not get sucked in.
10. A news fast is no substitute for sounder news curation, but still helpful from time to time--especially if you have found yourself picking up bad habits again.
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