{"id":141853,"date":"2021-09-01T13:54:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=141853"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T21:55:22","slug":"the-case-against-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=141853","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u6MVyDpGU6Y\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2013\/apr\/12\/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli\">From The Guardian<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>News is irrelevant. Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that \u2013 because you consumed it \u2013 allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career or your business. The point is: the consumption of news is irrelevant to you. But people find it very difficult to recognise what&#8217;s relevant. It&#8217;s much easier to recognise what&#8217;s new. The relevant versus the new is the fundamental battle of the current age. Media organisations want you to believe that news offers you some sort of a competitive advantage. Many fall for that. We get anxious when we&#8217;re cut off from the flow of news. In reality, news consumption is a competitive disadvantage. The less news you consume, the bigger the advantage you have.<\/p>\n<p>News has no explanatory power. News items are bubbles popping on the surface of a deeper world. Will accumulating facts help you understand the world? Sadly, no. The relationship is inverted. The important stories are non-stories: slow, powerful movements that develop below journalists&#8217; radar but have a transforming effect. The more &#8220;news factoids&#8221; you digest, the less of the big picture you will understand. If more information leads to higher economic success, we&#8217;d expect journalists to be at the top of the pyramid. That&#8217;s not the case.<\/p>\n<p>News is toxic to your body. It constantly triggers the limbic system. Panicky stories spur the release of cascades of glucocorticoid (cortisol). This deregulates your immune system and inhibits the release of growth hormones. In other words, your body finds itself in a state of chronic stress. High glucocorticoid levels cause impaired digestion, lack of growth (cell, hair, bone), nervousness and susceptibility to infections. The other potential side-effects include fear, aggression, tunnel-vision and desensitisation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: News is irrelevant. 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