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@phnt @fluffy @yomiel
I can dont let news ruin my mood, but I also dont go out of my way to indulge much in it. Do look into it bit when there is big happening but mostly even that after few days of happening.

Jefferson quote,

"To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables.

**General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on**

. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."

@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.