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Emotional toll of constant negative news and unlimited access to ‘doomscrolling’ has led to record-high news avoidance

News has never been more accessible – but for some, that’s exactly the problem. Flooded with information and relentless updates, more and more people around the world are tuning out.

The reasons vary: for some it’s the sheer volume of news, for others the emotional toll of negative headlines or a distrust of the media itself. In online forums devoted to mindfulness and mental health, people discuss how to step back, from setting limits to cutting the news out entirely.

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[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I'm just tired of corporations and useful idiots getting to dictate what I get to see.

News outlets never show source material. It's always some dipshit telling me what to think.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 points 54 minutes ago

At the airport, there was a bar and it was playing Fox News. They were using tweets as their news source.

Yeah fuck them

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

Seriously, the number of articles with wild headlines and text that describes a video or picture - WITHOUT SAID VIDEO OR PICTURE - is too damn high. Really the number of "news stories" that are just this is too damn high to say nothing of the fact that anything actually useful or critical just isn't going to make the news in favor of whatever corporate BS they are shilling.

I mostly opted out a long time ago and while I'm often out of the loop on lots of things I generally can't avoid hearing big news and have more room for other things that I actually care about.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I feel a lot of people keep up with the news just so they gave something in common to talk about, but since all the news these days is so depressing and realistically a average person is very much powerless to do anything about most of it, so I think people just ignore it, at least that's what I'm doing

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

Profits above all. And the news agencies, mainstream ones anyway, need clicks and views. Gotta sensationalize everything and generate click bait and tell flat out lies to get the views to increase profits. Which then we get flooded with stories that do nothing more than increase stress and anxiety. Oh and maybe that one heartwarming story about how 30 employees gave up 4 years worth of vacation so their coworker can have a life saving surgery…totally heartwarming and not showing how broken the medical system is.

Oh and Trump and friends basically control the media at this point, so much propaganda now.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I think its best to take the news in doses

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Apathy has set in HARD. I'm having trouble paying my own bills. How the hell am I supposed to influence something on a national scale? I have to limit my exposure to anxiety inducing material. American news media is 100% trash now anyway.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Even reading these comments gives me rumblings of anxiety. What s would!

[–] AuroraZzz@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Probably bc a few billionaires bought all the media in this country and now all the media is unreliable garbage. Hope all of these news organizations fail so we can get some actual news reporting again

[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 1 hour ago

Yes. I have no respect for the people working for these organizations.

They're part of the problem, and they're only doing it for a paycheck.

[–] LemUser@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago

I stopped watching because they don't hold our politicians accountable especially when they lie to our faces. 16 year old vloggers do a better job on TikTok. I canceled two newspapers. I'll get my news from The Daily Show.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

And this is why my family didn't know about the laws my wife and I left our home state over until we explained it to them

[–] tim@infosec.pub 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I just want healthcare, housing and education to be accessible, and the news seems hellbent on reporting on everything except that which could affect any of those issues in a positive way. They never do and that's one of the big reasons we're dealing with Trump.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Because hardly anything is ever done to healthcare, housing, or education in a positive way. When it rarely happens we often miss it, but it's still rare to even happen.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 31 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Being on Lemmy, I’ve noticed BBC News posts a lot of good environmental and local stories (because people post them here). I wish we’d see that in the US. All we get for news out of our conglomerates is regurgitated press releases, fear, murder, and war. The local news is just repeats of the national news repeated seven times per day.

We do have some local freebie newspapers that actually run local stuff. That’s about it though. Everything else is owned by the giant corporations. Luckily these smaller outlets have RSS feeds.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

It's part of being a public broadcaster. How's your local public radio?

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

I bet the Germans did too

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's a lot easier to ignore because so many news sites have pay walls now, so if you really want to know about the topic you put the effort into finding another source or using an archive service. If you're not interested enough, you just let it go.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I couldn’t take the obvious insane bias anymore. Unsubbed from NYT about 6 months ago, and WP immediately after Lord Bezos put the kibosh on their Harris endorsement.