Back in the 20th century there was a questionnaire that would determine how negative of a person you were. The more affirmative answers, the more negative.
One of the questions was, “do you watch the news every day?”
Heck, people watch, read, and comment/argue every hour now. It’s why BLM was complaining about the epidemic of unarmed black men being shot by cops, even though, in reality, the number was going down, most of them were in the process of committing a crime, and there were only 20 or so cases a year.
But when all twenty are youtube videos you’ve watched over and over, as a black man you can be afraid to sit behind the wheel of a car.
And school shootings? There are over 100,000 public schools in this country. They are ridiculously rare.
Etc.
I’ve found that if I avoid those stories, and just stop taking everything so seriously, when it’s not happening in my state, I’m good. :)
One of the questions was, “do you watch the news every day?”
Currently, is there really a place to watch news?
It is hard to tell, but it may be that as low as 1% of the human population are true sociopaths (liars, manipulators, etc.)
We talk about them a lot here because they tend to gravitate to positions of power and authority in all large institutions.
The good news—if you can manage to stay away from them at all times you will be much happier.