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gives you more reasons why you should not to consume news.
Note here, restricting your consumption of news shouldn't be a total sacrifice.
If you stop reading the news, life will be much happy + calm.
This
gives you more reasons why you should not to consume news.Note here, restricting your consumption of news shouldn't be a total sacrifice.
If you stop reading the news, life will be much happy + calm.
Stop reading the news by
1/ NEWS ARE UNSTOPPABLE
News are immediate & viral in nature.
Print + TV + Digital is continuously driving you to finish all the headlines + breaking news which you cannot in this lifetime.
News are immediate & viral in nature.
Print + TV + Digital is continuously driving you to finish all the headlines + breaking news which you cannot in this lifetime.
2/ NEWS REACH OUT TO YOU.
Newspapers physical & websites + News on the Radio & TV + News on the screensavers + Newsletters + RSS Feeds + Push Notifications + Discovery feed in search engines + Newsapp + Newspodcasts + Live news in Video search engines & Social Media.
Newspapers physical & websites + News on the Radio & TV + News on the screensavers + Newsletters + RSS Feeds + Push Notifications + Discovery feed in search engines + Newsapp + Newspodcasts + Live news in Video search engines & Social Media.
3/ NEWS DON'T MAKE YOU WISE
Just ask yourself two questions.
1. Do you understand the world
better now?
2. Do you make better decisions in life?
Answer in both case is NO.
Just ask yourself two questions.
1. Do you understand the world
better now?2. Do you make better decisions in life?
Answer in both case is NO.
4/ WHAT EXACTLY IS THE NEWS?
News is information + events across the world.
Covid + Bus Accident + Earthquake + Meeting of Minister A with Minister B + Bollywood Gossips + Cabinet Shuffle ++ Terror attack + Controversial tweet from politician + Stock market crash (next tweet)
News is information + events across the world.
Covid + Bus Accident + Earthquake + Meeting of Minister A with Minister B + Bollywood Gossips + Cabinet Shuffle ++ Terror attack + Controversial tweet from politician + Stock market crash (next tweet)
All snippets of information presented to you as TOP WORLD HEADLINES or BREAKING NEWS.
Maximum news are largely irrelevant to your personal world.
Assume safely more the BREAKING NEWS, less it MATTERS to you.
Maximum news are largely irrelevant to your personal world.
Assume safely more the BREAKING NEWS, less it MATTERS to you.
5/ NEWS IS A SERIOUS HARDCORE BUSINESS.
Any piece of information that increases interest among readers is newsworthy regardless whether it's actually important.
The fundamental fraud - the news being sold as relevant.
More readership - More ads - Better biz.
Any piece of information that increases interest among readers is newsworthy regardless whether it's actually important.
The fundamental fraud - the news being sold as relevant.
More readership - More ads - Better biz.
6/ NEWS TO MIND WHAT SUGAR IS TO BODY - ADDICTIVE DRUG
Sugary Foods - appetising, easily digestible & extremely damaging.
You can gobble as many articles but can never satiate you.
The side effects only become apparent latter just like Sugar, Alcohol, Fast Food & Smoking.
Sugary Foods - appetising, easily digestible & extremely damaging.
You can gobble as many articles but can never satiate you.
The side effects only become apparent latter just like Sugar, Alcohol, Fast Food & Smoking.
7/ NO NEWS BRINGS FOCUS.
Attention is a scarce commodity, protect it.
Not checking news takes discipline at first & you realize that you have more time + concentration to do things that matter.
If anything truly significant happens, you will know from friends, family etc.
Attention is a scarce commodity, protect it.
Not checking news takes discipline at first & you realize that you have more time + concentration to do things that matter.
If anything truly significant happens, you will know from friends, family etc.
8/ NEWS IS OUTSIDE YOUR CIRCLE 
OF COMPETENCE.
Anything inside this circle is an area of expertise. Anything outside is something you don't understand or fully understand.
Consuming news, one after another don't necessarily expand or strengthen your circle.
OF COMPETENCE.Anything inside this circle is an area of expertise. Anything outside is something you don't understand or fully understand.
Consuming news, one after another don't necessarily expand or strengthen your circle.
9/ NEWS IS A WASTE OF TIME.
Time spent consuming news + Switching cost ( Distraction to your task by switching to news) + Post consuming news, you still think
about news for long time periods.
58 to 96 minutes, you consume news in a day as per the American Pew research centre.
Time spent consuming news + Switching cost ( Distraction to your task by switching to news) + Post consuming news, you still think
about news for long time periods.58 to 96 minutes, you consume news in a day as per the American Pew research centre.
10/ NEWS LEAD TO OVERCONFIDENCE
Facts get in the way of your thoughts, you get into illusion that you understand the world, this leads to over confidence. The necessary scepticism, caution & modesty get washed away with information, predictions then get mutated into convictions.
Facts get in the way of your thoughts, you get into illusion that you understand the world, this leads to over confidence. The necessary scepticism, caution & modesty get washed away with information, predictions then get mutated into convictions.
11/ NEWS IS TOXIC TO OUR BODY
Bad news perceived more relevant than good news.
Negative bias : -ve info has 2x impact than +ve info
News Media use this bais & exploit our brains to anxieties( Next tweet)
Bad news perceived more relevant than good news.
Negative bias : -ve info has 2x impact than +ve info
News Media use this bais & exploit our brains to anxieties( Next tweet)
News stimulate nervous system. Psychological Stressors releases adrenaline by the hypothalamus, again leads to rise in cortisol. With every news story, cortisol increases which weakens immune system & inhibit the production of growth hormones.
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Chronic stress leads to digestive & growth problems + anxieties + prone to infection.
Other side effects: Aggression + Panic attacks + Emotional desensitisation + sleep disruption + mood swings + PTSD.
Other side effects: Aggression + Panic attacks + Emotional desensitisation + sleep disruption + mood swings + PTSD.
12/ NEWS REINFORCE CONFIRMATORY BIAS
Confirmation bias cement our theories, dogmas, ideologies & opinions. They all narrow your world view, put our mental blinkers,we take idiotic risks & miss out great opportunities.
Always ask yourself what I need to do, to change my mind now?
Confirmation bias cement our theories, dogmas, ideologies & opinions. They all narrow your world view, put our mental blinkers,we take idiotic risks & miss out great opportunities.
Always ask yourself what I need to do, to change my mind now?
13/ NEWS REINFORCE HINDSIGHT BIAS
Cause & effect don't happen in linearity. Multiple causes lead to a particular event, yet this event is attributed to only few. What leads to what is also very difficult to understand & display to audience even for news media.
Cause & effect don't happen in linearity. Multiple causes lead to a particular event, yet this event is attributed to only few. What leads to what is also very difficult to understand & display to audience even for news media.
14/ NEWS REINFORCE AVAILABILITY BIAS
We think what's front in our noses or what's in our brains. Our decision making has a strong influence on what is available than what's important for decision.
Increase in Swine flu cases in Bhutan & you in West Bengal, taking leave from work.
We think what's front in our noses or what's in our brains. Our decision making has a strong influence on what is available than what's important for decision.
Increase in Swine flu cases in Bhutan & you in West Bengal, taking leave from work.
15/ NEWS KEEP OPINION VOLCANO 
BUBBLING.
Topics that don't interest us, say cryptocurrency or
Topics that are abstract or unknown able, say Monsoon performance in 2021 or
Topics that are complex to understand, say India's role in WW3.
Opinions like noses, everybody has one.
BUBBLING.Topics that don't interest us, say cryptocurrency or
Topics that are abstract or unknown able, say Monsoon performance in 2021 or
Topics that are complex to understand, say India's role in WW3.
Opinions like noses, everybody has one.
16/ NEWS MAKE YOU LOSE WILLPOWER.
Newsmedia + social media knows best images, articles & videos that will tempt you to consume & will take over your will power & you give - in to them habitually.
Loss of Focus + Loss of Willpower is your loss of time + loss of productivity.
Newsmedia + social media knows best images, articles & videos that will tempt you to consume & will take over your will power & you give - in to them habitually.
Loss of Focus + Loss of Willpower is your loss of time + loss of productivity.
17/ NEWS PRODUCE FAKE FAME.
News has produced celebs. Celebrity is a self - referential system. A celeb is a celeb because he is a celeb. How they become celeb is forgotten. We read all about celebs then!
You lost a battle with fake news & now with fake fame too.
News has produced celebs. Celebrity is a self - referential system. A celeb is a celeb because he is a celeb. How they become celeb is forgotten. We read all about celebs then!
You lost a battle with fake news & now with fake fame too.
18/ NEWS MAKES US SMALLER THAN WE ARE.
We compare ourselves to people who have absolutely nothing to do with us & consuming the news, different types of stories day in day out, we feel inadequate for irrelevant reasons that we give to ourselves.
We compare ourselves to people who have absolutely nothing to do with us & consuming the news, different types of stories day in day out, we feel inadequate for irrelevant reasons that we give to ourselves.
19/ NEWS MAKES US PASSIVE
News stories are concerned with things you cannot change. We become hopeless pessimists. We activate victim mindset. Our impulse to take action fades & we become passive. This learned helplessness confronted to unresolved problems makes us depressed.
News stories are concerned with things you cannot change. We become hopeless pessimists. We activate victim mindset. Our impulse to take action fades & we become passive. This learned helplessness confronted to unresolved problems makes us depressed.
20/ NEWS IS MANIPULATIVE + INVENTED BY JOURNALISTS
For every reporter, there are PR agents working hard to get reporters write what their bosses wants media to say.
News are propoganda to suit someone's agenda ( next tweet)
For every reporter, there are PR agents working hard to get reporters write what their bosses wants media to say.
News are propoganda to suit someone's agenda ( next tweet)
Fake news - production at volume amplified with digital marketing + Bots producing fake news. All such stuff trend, generate in clicks & realised ad- revenues. Even Established News orgs publish Advertorials camaflouged as editorials & earn money out of it.
21/ NEWS GIVES US THE ILLUSION OF EMPATHY.
Consuming news don't bond people. Say, News channels show the fate of earthquake victims at place A, At place B people flock to news resources in crowds. Your attention does not bring any difference to the victims.
(Next tweet)
Consuming news don't bond people. Say, News channels show the fate of earthquake victims at place A, At place B people flock to news resources in crowds. Your attention does not bring any difference to the victims.
(Next tweet)
Newsmedia makes money by selling your attention to advertisers & earn money. If online, they gather your personal data - user behaviour & bombard you with targeted ads.
Your attention does not help victim but media & you harm yourself.
Your attention does not help victim but media & you harm yourself.
22/ NEWS ENCOURAGE TERRORISM.
Fear of the bomb > Bomb
Perceived threat > Actual threat
Terrorist goal is not kill people.
Dislodge govt + Support separatist movement etc.
Terror theatre can function only with free publicity.
Terror sells better than other stories.
Fear of the bomb > Bomb
Perceived threat > Actual threat
Terrorist goal is not kill people.
Dislodge govt + Support separatist movement etc.
Terror theatre can function only with free publicity.
Terror sells better than other stories.
23/ THE FUTURE OF NEWS
Trend 1: The torrent of news increases exponentially.
Trend 2: News is all around us, all the time.
Trend 3: Algorithms are getting better understanding is
Trend 4: News is drifting further further & very further away from the truth.
Trend 1: The torrent of news increases exponentially.
Trend 2: News is all around us, all the time.
Trend 3: Algorithms are getting better understanding is
Trend 4: News is drifting further further & very further away from the truth.
After reading this thread, please let me know
So, what do you think are the most important headlines this week?
So, what do you think are the most important headlines this week?
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