15 Reasons Why News Is Bad for You
That’s it, you should probably just stop reading this site. Except for maybe the cat videos. In a paper presented at TED this year, Rolf Dobelli breaks down 15 reasons news is bad for you:
1. News misleads systematically
2. News is irrelevant
3. News limits understanding
4. News is toxic to your body
5. News massively increases cognitive errors
6. News inhibits thinking
7. News changes the structure of your brain
8. News is costly
9. News sunders the relationship between reputation and achievement
10. News is produced by journalists
11. Reported facts are sometimes wrong, forecasts always
12. News is manipulative
13. News makes us passive
14. News gives us the illusion of caring
15. News kills creativity
Each point is elaborated upon in Dobelli’s paper. [PDF]
(Rolf Dobelli [PDF] via Paul Kedrosky)
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