Book review: News is bad for you - giving it up will make you happier

People must be really frustrated with the media otherwise this

book review from 2013 would not be time and again among 

the "most viewed" article in the Guardian.

The continuing newspaper crisis confirms an undercurrent

trend. Lots of people hate the media, the way they operate,

and are frustrated. Whether the media crisis takes an even

sharper turn or not depends on if people react, are 

consequential and cut back on their news consumption.

Or if they continue consuming and resign to their frustration.

One of the bad habits and strategies of the media are 

click baiting, or inciting to "rage clicks" with controversial

topics, hated persons and political issues. A really rare article

from 2012 gives an honest insight into this strategy, sharing that

dirty secret.  A lot more could be written, admitted and confessed 

to the reading public who are kept in a permanent state of 

outrage and anger, supposed to react to any red flag presented 

like the bull in a bull fight. Needless to say that the reader

gets nowhere, is just his time, submitting to the "learned

helplessness", and is likely to have a hard time economically.

Media crisis: Not only death and taxes are certain but also media layoffs and cutbacks

The media business has eventually entered into a state of permanent

misery. Newspapers for instance turned out to be mortal as well,

publications that do after all not exist in all eternity. It is just a 

matter of time when the next newspaper will cease to exist.

There are the monthly newspaper ABCs dutifully noting the declining

number of sales. Month for month, they steadily lose buyers.

When using the search words "media layoffs" or "newspaper layoffs"

(+ news) up come the lot of recent notices and reports to that effect.

CNN for instance is just laying off 300 staff. It should not come as

a surprise as the number of viewers of cable news channels in the US 

is incredibly low, almost unreal.

The magazine business is also in serious decline. Conde Nast, among

others, is axing staff. The media consumers are getting rid of ever

more newspapers, magazines, TV subscriptions.

A women's magazine therefore upgrade it's readers about the

layoffs, the cutbacks, obviously aware that the female readers

are frustrated with the media, willing to say a soft bye bye.