Comment by cleetus

These links discuss "news diets" as a counter to the problem of news as low-quality information and/or information pollution:

http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when....

http://www.dobelli.com/en/essays/news-diet/

And here's a similar recent discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084099