After the Scottish independence referendum on Thursday 18 September I want to take the advice from this article “News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier” by Rolf Dobelli and give up news for a year as an experiment.
According to that article:
- News misleads.
- News is irrelevant.
- News has no explanatory power.
- News is toxic to your body.
- News increases cognitive errors.
- News inhibits thinking.
- News works like a drug.
- News wastes time.
- News makes us passive.
- News kills creativity.
Until then I want to keep up to date with how the Yes campaigns wants to dismantle my country.
* dismantle an old, failing, corrupt institution to create something better 🙂
It took me at least 20 minutes to realise Gareth didn’t mean the same thing by “my country” as my instinctive reaction.
And to think I blew in from God’s other country (in 1993, originally).
I tend to compromise – choose my own news sources in which I’m actually interested.
This was particularly prompted by discovering the BBC quote press-releases willy-nilly without checking facts.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103888069615589058326/posts/cW9cUz6GQbJ
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103888069615589058326/posts/5npc3NDsiYp
I once heard about a news company that prided themselves on only posting ‘happy’ news – do you think this would have a positive effect?