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@yomiel @fluffy
Reading news is consciously adding negative information you have little to no way to influence in your life for zero added value. And very likely one of the biggest reasons why especially zoomies are getting depressed all the time. Their life is pumped full of social media where everybody acts like they are the happiest living on Earth and everything around them has been politicized to bizarre levels.

Reading news to me is like reading gossip. Zero added value and mostly negative noise. Tell me, when was the last time you saw or read something positive in the news? You probably don't remember. Why? Because negativity sells; people want to feel enraged at text on screen for whatever reason beyond my understanding.

@yomiel @fluffy
>Go look at the front page of BBC News, is it 'sensationalism'
It is a bunch of "news" that I don't care about. Also notice the lack of anything positive. picrel

>it's either 'cut reading news out of your life' or to scroll 8 hours a day on Twitter.
Or neither. You don't need either in your life. This is a frequent thing I hear from people that read news before sleep, at work, after work,... They "need" to know what happens. But they really don't, it adds nothing to their life besides getting in a bad mood when the front page of almost all news sites is just negativity.

>feels downright dishonest, you know damn well why, being angry is fun...
No, I don't find being angry fun. I don't like having an enemy. I want to live a life with as small amount of stress as possible, work on things I enjoy and have a family. Nowhere in that is "being angry", or having an "enemy". It's quite the opposite, I expect others except few exceptions to leave me to my own devices and stop meddling with my life. The literal meaning of "live and let live". I don't come to fedi to read some newsbot slop, hear about a shooting or read Trump's senile "Truths" on Glussy-made TruthSocial. I come to fedi to have fun and hopefully make someone else's day better while at it.

Nonetheless this is a great point, because I often see a correlation between news addicts and being pessimistic/finding reasons to be angry/being angry.
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@Pi_rat @fluffy @yomiel The last time I actually deliberately opened a news site without other outside factors was this september after local government elections. And only for the purpose of reading the comments under the articles, which were almost exclusively two sides barking at each other and making various outlandish takes that everybody outside their sphere would shake their head at. I didn't read a single article. Mostly because I wasn't interested in that them at all, I wanted only the cheap laughs drama.