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I try to stick with the big picture and only newspapers, not TV. I read the New York Times the most and it doesn't really give me anxiety because there's not too much designed to scare. I can't do local TV news because it's all "car crash! shooting! robbery! fire!" It's so alarmist.

I wouldn't want to give up my news habit but if it was giving me anxiety I might consider it!

I honestly don't keep up with the news. I feel pretty ridiculous when I don't know some huge world event going on (then I'll try and do some research). I think it keeps me sane though. Maybe a bit naive and in a bubble, but its my happy place and I'll stay there until it affects me negatively

I am also a news junkie but I don't think it has an impact on my ability to judge the risks of a situation. The news reports on something because it doesn't happen that often, making it news-worthy. So even though there are robberies, homicides, terrorist attacks, etc. on the news, it doesn't mean it's happening nonstop and you should never leave your house for fear of being shot.

I used to keep up with the news and even started to major in political science in college. Ultimately though I would get so upset about different thing that I would hear, they would literally keep my up at night (more the sad human interest stories not the murders etc so at least I wasn't scared.) I hated the lack of the positive side of stories, my husband works in the news industry with some local t.v. stations and the way they sensationalize stories makes me sick.

Now my consumption of news is limited to NPR once or twice a week in the car. Occasionally my husband will have one of the late night shows on and I will over hear something they are discussing and I will look it up but otherwise I just rely on my mom to call and tell me about catastrophic events.

ever since having LO, i cannot read the news for fear of hearing about something totally disturbing and unsettling. It effects me for DAYS, especially when it involves children/pets. last week my DH and i were on the train and he was reading the paper, and I happened to glance over and saw an article about how a man in Ohio was just put to death for a horrible, disgusting crime on a 6 month old baby and I cried about it every day and could not get it out of my head. I was SO MAD that i read it and it shook me up for days. So although I would love to be up to date on topics happening, I just cannot bear to read about any sad or disturbing stories like that, it breaks my heart in a million pieces and takes me a long time to recover.