Given my background in journalism, it may seem blasphemous for me, of all people, to advise folks to limit their news intake for mental health’s sake. Yet, as a professional news junkie, I am alarmed by the rampant incidence of news OD and its harmful effects on public health, not to mention personal relationships. Over the past decade or so the glut of what passes for “news” has turned too many educated and concerned people into habitually cynical, angry, sometimes despairing citizens. The chief pusher is 24- hour cable news. That incrementally changing loop gets internalized, and a mindset develops....

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