Better living through denial, eh?
Better living through not being overloaded with gloom and doom despite the fact that, somehow, life continues and is actually pretty good.
Seriously. 95% of the news is deliberately written and reported to provoke an emotional reaction in the viewer. Many of the news stories I saw weren't really news, just "more of the same." Accidents, people behaving badly, people being prosecuted for behaving badly, trivial details about some person or other that I don't personally know and even if I did, I'd learn these things directly from them, stories about "celebrities" that I could care less about...
I can easily and happily live without that crap.