Quitting news consumption is a deliberate detoxifying act after media saturation.

Evidence

Disillusioned beyond repair, Weiss quit. For months he and two friends hid away at a house his parents owned in the Catskills: “The snow fell four feet deep and at evening we would sit and watch the sun turn the sky purple and orange across the frozen lake.” I’m reminded of my blissful media-less cabin stay in the Sierras when he adds: “For months I didn’t read a newspaper, after years of reading four or five a day.” — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 170

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social media users cyclically withdraw from platforms to reduce anxiety and drama — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 634; Removing all media would plunge individuals into a void enabling genuine self-knowledge — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 852
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Social media users cyclically withdraw from platforms to reduce anxiety and drama — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 634; Removing all media would plunge individuals into a void enabling genuine self-knowledge — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 852