Junk food journalism

News inflation
Junk news journalism
Social media psychobabble

Nature

Journalists are not giving the public straight, well-documented, understandable information about those things that make societies ill economically, politically or physically. Instead, the news consist of sensationalized, personalized and homogenized trivia.

Claim

It is essential that we learn how to discern what is really going on. This means disconnecting from the endless streams of novelty on our social media feeds.