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user-inactivated  ·  4029 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reading The News Is Bad For You (Not Reading Will Make You Happier)

Double "hmm." I keep up to date on news as a hobby (it sort of flows naturally from browsing the web looking for interesting articles anyway), and although I don't watch tv news I check some of the major online outlets every couple of days. This is some sort of vice, I now discover. Huh.

    I know people that watch the "news" religiously and they're definitely more bitter regarding the state of the world and where it is headed.

I would call being informed an overwhelmingly positive trait, and any conclusions drawn for being informed a side effect that isn't relevant to whether keeping track of the news is a good idea.