The 24-second news cycle is exhausting journalists. Here’s how they cope

I ran across my wife’s iPad on the kitchen counter, and a bright sticky note she had placed on the stand caught my attention.

“Stay off the news!” it read.

Naturally, as someone who works in the news, I wanted to know why my partner was intent on staying away from the thing that pays our mortgage.

She told me the note was her therapist’s suggestion, a way to “balance news consumption from a perspective of limited time and brief exposure to it.”

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