> Did anything you were "informed about" in the past by news made any real difference in your life (you having been informed, not the news item itself).
On the recent past, vaccine availability, COVID related restrictions, and when to relax a little bit on the extreme safety conservatism because hospitals actually had any room. Of course, those were on local news, that is much more useful than national or the completely useless global one. "The news" is basically the channel any large institution use to communicate with people, so any general institutional information comes from there.
Also, a big constant is when to buy or sell government bonds (for other, more volatile and specialized things, the news is useless).
On the recent past, vaccine availability, COVID related restrictions, and when to relax a little bit on the extreme safety conservatism because hospitals actually had any room. Of course, those were on local news, that is much more useful than national or the completely useless global one. "The news" is basically the channel any large institution use to communicate with people, so any general institutional information comes from there.
Also, a big constant is when to buy or sell government bonds (for other, more volatile and specialized things, the news is useless).