Feeling confused, irritated or sleepless? Your insistence on getting news from a variety of sources could be to blame – but don’t worry, there is a cure!
Months after exposing the perils of news reading and “Political Stress Syndrome,” state-run media yesterday repeated a call for the public to avoid confusion brought on by “misinterpretation of information.”
There was nothing remotely confusing about the laudably straightforward NNT report, which warned against non-junta news sources in one sentence before addressing energy taxation structures in the next.
Their prescription to fighting any confused, unharmonious thinking brought on PSS? Avoid everything but two doses of state-run media daily – once each morning and evening.
Otherwise “overconsumption of news” may cause stress, sleeping problems, irritability or even headaches from the confusion brought by too much information, warned Wachira Phengchan, a top health official, in a dispatch authored two days after the junta seized power.
We’d like to bolster that warning by reminding readers that an abundance of unfiltered information has also been known to result in a well-informed public and capacity for critical thinking and problem solving. Dangerous things indeed.
The report urges anyone suffering from these symptoms to contact the Ministry of Public Health’s hotline at 1667.
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