Written by Rolf Dobelli for The Guardian, on April 2013.
According to an article of The Guardian, reading news is bad for health, it leads to fear and it's bad to creativity and deep thinking. Reading news is too easy to digest and don't allow us to think; news can be toxic.
News misleads us by focusing on irrelevant things, unlikely books and long articles from magazines that allow us to think and are more complex. Most information that news give to us are irrelevant; they usually don't make us take better decisions or change some points in our life or mind, they're just irrelevant. They have no explanatory power, they just let us know the surface of a deep world that hides behind the lines.
News is toxic to our body, because they trigger the limbic system, by making our body feel on a constant state of chronic stress that is really bad for human health. They increase cognitive errors and inhibit thinking. They work like drugs, because we want to know more and more information from something, and they make us waste time in irrelevant things. News makes us passive and kills creativity.
We need another kind of journalism, like investigative journalism that allows us to think and undercover corruption and relevant aspects to our society.
The author of the article says that he has been four years without reading news. It’s been hard but now he can feel the effects of it: less anxiety, deeper thinking.
News misleads us by focusing on irrelevant things, unlikely books and long articles from magazines that allow us to think and are more complex. Most information that news give to us are irrelevant; they usually don't make us take better decisions or change some points in our life or mind, they're just irrelevant. They have no explanatory power, they just let us know the surface of a deep world that hides behind the lines.
News is toxic to our body, because they trigger the limbic system, by making our body feel on a constant state of chronic stress that is really bad for human health. They increase cognitive errors and inhibit thinking. They work like drugs, because we want to know more and more information from something, and they make us waste time in irrelevant things. News makes us passive and kills creativity.
We need another kind of journalism, like investigative journalism that allows us to think and undercover corruption and relevant aspects to our society.
The author of the article says that he has been four years without reading news. It’s been hard but now he can feel the effects of it: less anxiety, deeper thinking.
Yes, I think just the same... bad news about war or sick can be toxic for people...
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