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News consumption deepens societal polarisation, erodes the possibility of civic discourse, and turns neighbours who might otherwise be friends into ideological enemies.
This video explores how consuming the news erodes the ability to think deeply and sustain focus, while amplifying hateful, manufactured division.
“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Memoirs.
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