I've read Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Work Week, and his proposal of a low-information diet made me think. I cut down my newspaper-reading to zero. Not even online. And I am very grateful that I did — I don't miss it at all.

...and then I've run across this quote from Thomas Jefferson: "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

I laughed out loud. The idea wasn't so new.

Then I leveraged the time I earned by overindulging in Lesswrong, Overcomingbias, Wikipedia and other precious sources. And reading more books.

Still propositional knowledge, but clearly more enlightening than the daily fix of murders and gossips.