Do you watch news from television? Several times per day? Do you follow online news services? Do you refresh your browser to see latest additions on a discussion forum?

Unless it is your job or hobby to collect useless information you don not need it. A good example could be the big explosion in North Korea which might have been a nuclear test. How much it affects your daily life? You might have a chat during lunch with your colleagues - "Did you hear about the bomb? - Yea, crazy bastards".

It might be important for an active activist to know about bad things going on in the world but what does average passive couch potato do with all that information? He gets worried and stressed. But he isn't going to do anything because he feels he doesn't have any part. He might donate couple pennies to some organization but that's all. That can be done anyways.

I think I will just check some very limited news once a day. If there is something really important and big enough then I will hear about it for sure. But I might have to find out something to fill that time I spent for acquiring way too much information about everything.