How many times a day do you read or watch the news?

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I never watch the news these days but I do check the headlines online several times a day. Today must have been five or six times. That’s the national news and the local news! Sometimes the news is so awful that I know it can’t be good for me especially if I get caught up in a story and keep checking for updates. It’s important to keep up with current affairs but I need to set a limit. What is the norm for you?

RTE news at breakfast time, Irish Times and Guardian daily. Some nights I will watch the main evening bulletin on TV.

Zero. I actively avoid it. It's started to terrify me. The kids are allowed to watch it ( little one - eldest is very politically aware on a worldwide level). I hear two minute snap shots on the radio and that's,as much as I need. I don't need to see body's in the street, hear mother's screaming. I keep wondering when they will move onto showing the actual moments people are killed. It just gets more and more graphic. I don't need to see a body rotting in the street to understand a war. My eldest has seen that on YouTube. Who needs to see someone insides being blown out by a machine gun? Not me

I grew up with reading the newspaper for breakfast. Evening news were sacred times in my childhood and still are with my PIL.

My mum is still grumpy when the care home is not getting the papers to her before 10am.

I wake up to Radio 4, check the online pages after breakfast now and do check a couple of times a day.
Watching the news is not really possible so online is the way to go for me.

What happens elsewher does affect me.

Read the interesting looking stories in the times app daily

Watch bbc breakfast daily

Watch newsnight regularly

Watch the news if nothing else on

Unless something monumental happens like when the Queen died and I watched more news then.

Probably headlines 5 or 6 times a day. C4 news weekdays. And we still get a newspaper delivered daily.

When I’m office based and up early I watch BBC breakfast before my commute. If I’m WFH I check out BBC news online and X before I start.

I’ll check BBC news a bit during the day, then I’ll defo watch the 10 o’clock and local news before bed.

9am Today programme R4. 6pm or 10pm BBC news on TV. No notifications ever. Might see something on MN inbetween

Never. I actively avoid it and have been doing so since Covid and the impact it had on my mental health. I keep up with what’s going on in my line of work and occasionally check the local news but that’s it. And do you know what, it’s absolutely fine. Nothing has changed in the world just because I haven’t watched the 6 o’clock news. My parents have the rolling news on and we can be sitting there with the same stories repeating with no update but they won’t turn it off. I can’t bear it. People probably think I’m ignorant but no longer keeping up with it has only made a significant difference to my life in that I’m happier and less anxious.

Vary rarely, half of it is half truths, misinformation or misdirection. Especially after watching the tv series spooks and how the news is altered etc, basically trust nothing

I read about 4 hours a day, I don't very often watch the news but catch up by following it online with Sky news.

WFH as well and Sky news is my background noise too. Also a news nerd and I have the most informed DC because they don't realise they are picking info up all the time l heard our 12 yr old explaining the asylum seeker issues to a friend the other day and I was really impressed with what she said made more sense than I ever could.

I don't. I haven't for years. Ditto reading newspapers in any form. The only "news" I check is the weather in my area.

Similar to you, OP, I read headline feeds four or five times a day - different ones. I click through to stories that interest me, then often click a link or two to other items, so I probably read between ten and twenty full stories most days. I read four or five 'magazine' type stories as well: fashion, the arts, or general opinion pieces.

I don't focus well on video or spoken news but watch an hour-long news programme (with subtitles) about once a fortnight.

I'm very selective indeed about the news I ingest.

I deliberately don't look at the detail of some news items, albeit I'm very aware of things that are happening in the world. I get to know what I need but purposefully avoid the violent, sensationalist reporting and especially videos and photos that are streamed 24/7/365 onto our screens and devices. I don't need the horror in my life, and the imagery once seen is never forgotten. People seem to feel obliged to have to ingest it, I don't. I control my exposure, it doesn't control me.

i get more of my information from LBC because it's the discussion and analysis that is helpful, without the sensationalism that 24/7 newsreels want to pump into people's homes and lives.

I look at the weather about once an hour for my area, it's compelling stuff

Never. I lived in a developing country for about 18 months with limited access to internet or media. When i eventually returned home and read a newspaper I was surprised how virtually nothing had changed, it was same old escalating tensions in the same old places. I obviously don’t want Iran and Israel to be bombing each other but damn they’ve been threatening to for so long now. If the world governments can’t do anything to prevent it then what am i going to do?

I don't look at the news online or TV.

Nothing to do with anxiety whatsoever. It's just the same shit, different day/month/year.

And newspapers in all their forms have been "banned" in my home since I became an adult, I'm 64 now! I read one local free paper each week. My mum was obsessed with politics and devoured newspapers, it made me realise you can find whichever version of an event you prefer so it's pointless in terms of info. I know some people enjoy them though

My parents watched it three times a day as well as having it on as background all day 🙄
I look at the headlines a couple of times a day, rarely watch the news on tv because it’s depressing much of the time.

Always watch the BBC morning programme. Then depending what's going on in the world or if there's a particulate News item I'm interesting in I'll check online a few times a day or put the BBC news channel on.

Read the news on-line about half a dozen times a day.
Can't remember the last time I watched TV news.

Never.

I actively avoid the news. So much of it is sensationalist clap trap and both the TV channels and the newspapers keep rehashing it and speculating. I probably have a quick peak about once every 6 months and that’s enough to convince me to stay in my own, happy ignorance.

Rarely watch the news. Maybe check BBC news once a day, or listen to the bulletins on the radio if I happen to be in the car. If something does happen then I will read or watch the news..

I grew up with a mum who was obsessed with the news, bbc news in the morning, then itv news at night, switch over to BBC news at 6, then the local news, then channel four news and then the nine pm news.

my mum would sit and cry at the news, her anxiety would be through the roof, she would worry constantly that the world was ending and accused me of not caring. I do care very much but I cannot change what is happening. I know enough to get by.

Ive had enough horrible shit going on in my own life and I’m not adding to it.

I read the main headlines every morning and watch evening news a few times a week so I feel that I have a good understanding of what is happening in the world without being consumed by it. During the Trump, Brexit and Covid era I think I was very engaged with it all, I like politics but it all got too much. So much is sensationalised, opinion and propaganda being pushed by media moguls in cahoots with governments and think tanks. I just don't want to know anything beyond facts. My PIL and DPs have news on tv and radio all day, especially since Covid and it has made them very anxious and fearful about the world being a terrible place.