Bad news sells. More bad news sells more. Good for the economy, right? Governments do the same thing. It's called propaganda. Our children didn't watch much TV and when they did it was publicly funded. No Advertising. Now you need to screen what they see on the computer.

We are bombarded every day, thousands of times per day with misinformation. Everyone has a biased slant to what is called news. It is difficult to sift through what is fact and what is fiction. 

That is why when we go on vacation, we don't take any electronic devices with us. At All. It's too distracting. Takes away from your enjoyment of your surroundings and the people that you are with.