I also haven't watched/listened to/read the news in years. I initially thought this might make me more sensitive to the news if I ended up seeing it "by accident" e.g. if I'm at someone's else's house and they turn on the TV news. But it hasn't - I think my own spiritual growth has made me quite strong inside and I find I can watch the news quite objectively on the rare occasions that I end up seeing it: I can separate out the facts from the fear, and I can feel compassion for people involved in a tragedy without getting sucked in to the dramatic hype and spin that the media place on it.
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