Eliminating National News from My Daily Diet

About six months ago, I decided to get off social media. I wasn&rsquo;t particularly active anymore, but I did a lot of scrolling, mostly on Threads and a little on X. I rarely went on Facebook, and I never made the transition to the more visually-oriented platforms like Instagram much less Tik-Tok. So I was already mostly gone, but I decided to stop entirely. I removed the apps, and read only my…