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There was a day, 18th April 1930, where the BBC reported no news. It really shocks me because of how different the times are now. I can't imagine there's any minute that doesn't have dozens news stories running
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010szlg
Hey, that was my -76th Birthday!
This would be so nice I swear.
IDK if the BBC still does this, but back when I watched, they had a habit of just cutting to some B-roll footage of whatever situation, and just shutting up for a while to let it play out and let the audience breathe a little bit, as a segueway and palate cleanser before whatever the next segment was. Absolute perfection. I cannot imagine the American news doing that (and indeed they do not) without someone losing their job.
Honestly, that's your choice. My advice; limit your news to 2 - 3 "channels" (like RSS app, Lemmy), set them up that you have to "open them" (no by-the-side stream) and have days where you just don't do that.
Yes, i'm easily stressed.
Oh I don't read much for news. A local paper (which is in a language I barely know), a little on here but most in blocked, and The Onion type publications sometimes.
I still can't imagine that a news source says "there's not news now, have some piano" in 2025
I mean, there was still a tremendous amount of things happening in 1930, they just didn't report on any of it.