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Why more and more people are tuning the news out: ‘Now I don’t have that anxiety’
(www.theguardian.com)
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I feel it. I know the news: the worst shit you can imagine, every day. Everybody is doing the exact opposite of the ethical or moral thing.
God it's so sad but so true, I always think of that scene in shawshank where the guy is about to get raped and the camera pans away with the narrator saying " I wish I could tell you the good guy won". That's just our society, the bad guys almost always win and we keep going down.
I've been consuming the news daily since 2015 with a heavy focus on politics as well as history for additional context. It's been a rough decade and I can acknowledge that it has always took a toll on my mental health in the past, but the last year it has felt worse.
Ever since Project 2025 and the November 2024 election, something inside me just changed or snapped or broke maybe. A substantial shift I felt for months, not just mere hours or days. A desire to give up. A need to stop. A hopeless feeling of is anything even worth it anymore?
This was a state of a few things for me looking back reflectively, I can see the cause and effect within myself with a lot clearer eyes than before.
I still read the news daily, even at the toll of my mental health because I can't hide or run or deny what is objectively happening in reality. I can't let myself ignore people getting kidnapped, deported, shot and killed by "cops", the dismantlement of rights we've had for over a century, I just can't, nor I won't blind my eyes to what's happening.
I did take a news break for a few months and it did vastly help my mental health, but it slowly took time to feel better. I am better now, but it's still very far from ideal. I take regular news breaks. I stray away from over-dramatic or sensationalized news bites than end up just being a twitter screenshot with nothing substanclian or proven, just noise. I rely on solid, proven independent journalists and outlet that aren't all backed by billionaires.
I'm talking about ProPublica, Mediapart, The Texas Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 404 Media, and plenty of others I've got bookmarked as well as a few Podcasts, but those are left leaning for the most part because reality has a liberal basis.
I will say one thing that's truly help. Whenever you're reading the latest headlines, just ask yourself this: is this news or is this noise?