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> Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that.. allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career, your business – compared to what you would have known if you hadn’t swallowed that morsel of news.

That's what got me to stop keeping up to date with most news a few years ago and I've been happier for it.

Being more charitable on why news is important though, news serves as modern day gossip, and gossip may play a key role in holding human societies together.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne9ae8/gossip-may-have-pl...

parent chillacy 7 years ago

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