#Things to consider
- Be aware that the press is selling the new and immediate as relevant—this is a fraud. Relevance is a highly personal issue. Neither journalists nor consumers have much sense of what’s relevant. To the media, what’s relevant is anything that grabs attention.
- Sometimes the media rather grandiosely calls these snippets of information ‘breaking news’ or ‘top world headlines’. This doesn’t change the fact that they’re largely irrelevant to your personal world.
- You don’t need to know whether one president shook another one’s hand. You don’t need to know whether two trains crashed somewhere in the world.
- Use these two questions to find out if news is relevant to you: Do you understand the world better now? And do you make better decisions?
- News is to your mind what sugar is to your body.