The Cure for News Fatigue

In a world where the constant drumbeat of bad news can lead to serious anxiety, Isaiah reminds us to pay attention to the good news that the Creator God has it all in hand.

Feeling a little burned out on bad news?

You’re not alone.

The year 2020 seemed to be a month-to-month challenge to top bad news with worse news, dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. Add to that a contentious election cycle, protests and unrest over social issues, and a host of other potential crises — like an invasion of murder hornets and the government’s revelation of UFO photos — and it’s no wonder we’re all feeling a kind of information hangover. Many of us were staying home due to quarantine and social distancing, which naturally led to us watching more news than normal.

Many of us are old enough to remember when news outlets consisted of three TV channels, a daily newspaper, and the radio. When Walter Cronkite told us, “That’s the way it is” at the end of every evening news broadcast, we had some time to digest what was going on. The 24-hour, multi-platform, social media-curated, constant cycle of news that confronts us ...