YANBU to think everyone should be aware of the news but the problem is with the way it's presented.
All media outlets are overwhelmingly negative in their approach. This is done because negativity and fear makes people more likely to keep reading or watching. If everything were OK, there'd be fewer viewers. By stoking the fires and speaking of impending disasters they guarantee more viewers and therefore more revenue.
The problem with this approach is that sometimes many people feel overwhelmed by it and have to take a step back. I certainly have done from time to time, to protect my mental health, though there's an argument that sometimes a disaster on the other side of the world can... not cheer me up exactly, but put my problems into perspective. Act as a wake up call that things could be worse.
Generally I've adopted a rather fatalistic view of the world and the presentation of news probably has contributed to this. My view is the world's shit, but it will only get worse. Years of constant doom-mongering have probably led me to conclude that.
My second news memory was the Chernobyl disaster and how it would affect the environment for decades to come. Then acid rain was going to destroy our way of life. Then the greenhouse effect. Then it was mad cow disease, I remember vividly watching a BBC report where they were saying that although there were barely any human cases so far, it could take 10 years to develop so by the mid 2000s anyone who'd eaten beef could have it. The atrocities of the IRA were an ever-present threat, then 9/11 happened and it became Islamism that was always lurking, waiting to kill. Brexit was going to ruin the county, then Covid, now climate change again, inflation and the cost of living, the threat of war from Russia, the growing threat of China, immigration.
The point is, there's always one, usually several, potential "disasters" on the horizon. If there wasn't anything wrong the news would make you think there was. But humans have always survived the previous threats, even when disasters happened. Most of the things we feared turned out not to be anywhere near as bad as suggested. (Remember the millennium bug? Planes were supposed to drop out of the sky at the stroke of midnight, literally nothing serious happened.)
Part of the blame has to go towards populist politicians like Johnson, Starmer, Sturgeon, Trump or Biden. (Some will say they're not all populist - they are. Just in a way you've been fooled by.) They feed the media doom and gloom. They need to present the opposition as a total disaster, otherwise why would anyone vote for them.
Rather than avoid news or bury our heads in the sand, it's healthier to adopt a more critical approach. Don't accept the news at face value. Watch or read news from various sources, even ones you don't agree with. If you can't tell what their angle is, what they're trying to make you think, then realise you've been fooled by them.
Remember that news is FACTS, not opinions.