Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Dobelli, Rolf (12 April 2013), News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier, The Guardian, Retrieved on 2013-12-13Source Material [www.theguardian.com]
Folksonomies: health news Memes
13 DEC 2013
Reasons to Give Up News
News misleads. News leads us to walk around with the completely wrong risk map in our heads. So terrorism is over-rated. Chronic stress is under-rated. The collapse of Lehman Brothers is overrated. Fiscal irresponsibility is under-rated. Astronauts are over-rated. Nurses are under-rated. News is irrelevant. Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that – because you consumed it – allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter aff...Taking just the titles/headers of the reasons, and abbreviated explanations.