Via Rolf Dobelli

  • News misleads us systematically
  • News is irrelevant
  • News limits understanding
  • News is toxic to your body
  • News massively increases cognitive errors
  • News inhibits thinking
  • News changes the structure of your brain
  • News is costly
  • News sunders the relationship between reputation and achievement
  • News is produced by journalists
  • Reported facts are sometimes wrong, forecasts always
  • News is manipulative
  • News makes us passive
  • News gives us the illusion of caring
  • News kills creativity