"Still, the arguments of the no-news advocates aren’t unconvincing. ‘**The only reason for making news daily**,’ claims [[John Somerville]] in How the News Makes Us Dumb, ‘**is to create an information industry**’: news organisations have a vested interest in encouraging a sense of the world as ‘jumpy and scattered’, as he puts it, and constantly changing. **News is biased: not primarily politically, though that’s sometimes true, but in favour of crises, which combine novelty with negativity**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[attention]], [[essentialism]], [[news-illusion]], [[dealing-with-social-media]], [[stress]], [[infinite-scroll]], [[ever-present-now]] **Source** -- [[20241114100017 - B - Help!]]