News generally can be depressing, especially going by their general maxim where it's not news until it smells and by their knowledge of people's proclivity for the sensational. There's also the aspect of wanting to please their paymasters. You can't resent that. The dictate of the payer is law for the piper.
Books on the other hand, can be more beneficial. They, to a large extent, inform. If you can see beyond the author's biases and "partial" perspectives, they have the inherent potency to expand your mind and the vistas of knowledge with the caveat that you'd need to protect this same mind from being too receptive of the lies some authors peddle for personal and patriotic intents and purposes.
Thus, the mind requires that it be regularly fed with information that makes it actualise its potency for expansion while that information is confronted with a mental antivirus that prevents it from poisoning the mind with half-truths, pseudo-truths and outright falsifications.
You get informed. Not deformed.
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