@ i hate the news

Source:](http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews) Author: Aaron Swartz Type: #litnote Topics: [[ Social Media ]] [[ Mindfulness ]]

• News is waste of time. It doesn’t make you good citizen either as most people seem to think
• None of the news makes any relevance to your life
• People think news expose the wrong-doing of people and stop the wrong=doers but it is not so. It makes the wrong-doers do the crime more subtly.
• Don’t need to watch news everyday if you want to vote, can just read the guide about the candidate and issues before election
• No need to suffer the back and forth allegation on the news. Your life won’t change by reading or listening to the news
• Instead of watching news daily why not do it weekly or even annualy?
• Its not just a waste of time but also unhealthy
• If your life doesn’t improve with it, or can’t be greatly enhanced by it, you can stop watching and reading the news