The Overconsumption of News; It’s Killing Us

If you sample the various TV stations in your market, have you ever noticed that they all follow pretty much the same playbook? There is a male and female anchor, the weather person and a few reporters who are “on the scene” and “live” in front of what was a shooting or fire the day before. But “they are live on the scene” even if it is just standing in front of boring caution tape that symbolizes what happened hours before. The playbook is the same, the headlines are the same, the stories are the same, the formats are the same. And every fifteen minutes (unless there is breaking news or severe weather) it all repeats itself pounding the doom & gloom into our brains over and over and over again.