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You can check the news far less than once a day. If you apply a low-pass filter to current events by, say, checking once a week or even less, the broad movements and important things will remain while the shallow and ephemeral will naturally be filtered out.

There exists a quote ( probably from Mark Twain or Aristotle ) that one should put away the daily paper and read it 14 days later.

If somebody can help out and dig up a link : please do.

> the other 99% is repetition, opinion, speculation, propaganda, etc.

I'd respectfully amend this to: the other 99% is repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, sportball, sportball, sportball, sportball, celebs, celebs, opinion, speculation, propaganda, etc.