Adam Eccles Blog
01 September 2025

Why I Don’t Watch, Listen To, or Read the “News” (And Why You Shouldn’t Either)

People sometimes look at me like I’ve grown a second head when I tell them I don’t watch the news. No TV bulletins, no radio headlines, no scrolling through online papers, not even the “trending” bits on Twitter. And definitely no paper papers. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

Why? Because all news is bad news.

And I don’t mean bad as in “tragic,” I mean bad as in toxic, manipulative, and almost entirely irrelevant to your actual life.

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