[cleetus]

These links discuss "news diets" as a counter to the problem of news as low-quality information and/or information pollution:

http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when....

http://www.dobelli.com/en/essays/news-diet/

And here's a similar recent discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084099

[f055]

Your dobelli link is 404 :( anyway, this whole problem isn’t new but it’s very hard to solve. How to stay informed but not bloated? I don’t know... here they compare mainstream news to fast food so I guess that’s one way to look at it: https://thecontext.net/opinion/2017/04/4/the-post-truth-and-...

[gwern]

https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf