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Details:condition: brand newformat: paperbackisbn: 9781529342727publisher: sceptreage range: adult overviewstop reading the news is rolf dobelli's provocative manifesto challenging one of modern life's most compulsive habits: the daily news cycle. Drawing on psychology, philosophy and his own experience of giving up news for good, dobelli argues that constant news consumption erodes concentration, distorts our understanding of the world and quietly damages our mental health. Calm, direct and refreshingly practical, this short book offers readers a genuinely different way to engage with the world
One built on depth, patience and real understanding rather than anxious, endless scrolling. About the bookin 2013, rolf dobelli stood in front of a room of journalists and calmly announced he had stopped reading the news altogether
And had never felt better for it. Stop reading the news expands that argument into a compact, persuasive case against the news habit most of us take for granted. Dobelli dismantles the idea that following breaking news makes us better informed, arguing instead that it fragments our attention, feeds anxiety, and crowds out the slower, deeper reading that actually builds understanding. He examines how news outlets are structured to exploit cognitive biases, why staying informed through headlines is often an illusion, and how the constant drip of stories about disasters and conflict can distort our sense of risk and progress in the world. Cruc...
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