The more unstable a situation is, the more rapidly it changes, the less valuable minute-by-minute reporting is. I don’t know what happened to the hospital in Gaza, but if I wait until the next issue of the Economist shows up I will be better informed about it than people who have been rage-refreshing their browser windows for the past several days, and I will have suffered considerably less emotional stress.
If you’re reading the news several times a day, you’re not being informed, you’re being stimulated.
This is my reminder that it’s not my responsibility to be up to date on current thinking. It’s to have an informed opinion and act on it toward a better world.