The Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. We spend a lot of our time keeping up with the news and we can do it really well these days because of smartphones

the internet TV newsprint and when big events happen say like an earthquake a disaster a political

race we can hear the news over and over and over again being inundated by the news. For example, I live in Southern California,

and I remember, because I've lived here for a while now,

but I do remember when an earthquake happens,

for days on end on almost every channel, all they're talking it about is the earthquake

over and over and over again, image after image after image.

And I would say almost all of them are repeated. There's really no new news coming.

It's just whatever is being portrayed through social media or through the news.

It's just repeated over and over again.

It's the same news being repeated. And at the end of a little

while, hopefully most of us get very tired of it and want it to go away and turn it off. We get

bored and we go on to something else. But when the event happens,

we can be just inundated by all the news events throughout so many different channels.

And sometimes it can be like a drug though.

We just want to keep hearing it, keep seeing those images, keep hearing that news report

again and again.

We're almost addicted to the news, and that's why it sells and that's why they keep repeating it because they know people will keep listening

And the newscaster's jobs the social media people is to feed our addictions to news.

I'm sure not everyone will agree with this, but probably most listeners to this podcast

well, that spending our time hour after hour after hour listening to the news

isn't very good for us.

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