dude, i suffer from the same problem as you do. What i do now is i completely ignore the news. I had become so good at paying attention to the news that i stopped, and i was still on the same level as everyone else, just by seeing the snippets, and watching or reading ever once in a while. Believe it or not, you really pick up on a lot of things if you know how to pay attention to them right. And i found that not paying any attention made me a complete idiot. and that paying too much attention made me a bumbling stuttering idiot. so i watch the headlines and read an article or two every now and again, find an issue and decide which side i support, then read a few key facts about the subject, then its debate it from there. just know the topic, you will be able to formulate your own opinions about main topics just from those, and so long as you can support them you are wiser than most.
jimmy8778 Reviewed by jimmy8778 on . Oh no I'm addicted!!! .....to the news! I don't know why but I find this moment in history we're all living in to be the most fascinating time period since WWII. And some how I can't stop reading the news. For me its not a once a day thing for like an hour I mean I do it constantly. Like every time I'm not doing my homework I'm on the internet surfing the web for the latest news. Its rediculous and at first it was ok...in fact it was great because I was so well informed about so many important issues and every Rating: 5