Yep, agree that in hindsight most news feel quite unimportant. Personally, I stopped following any, except for specific topics I'm interested in (say, 'space exploration news'). I figured in most cases it just makes me frustrated (i.e. how dumb politicians are, or how ignorant are people, etc.), and in most cases I can't do much actionable about most of this frustration.

If it's something really important, it would seep through my twitter feed or even here on Hackernews. I understand it can be hard though, and it took me some conscious effort and time to get used to this.

Although I can't see why you can't use RSS? Then you can skim though the titles once a week, and read the ones you find the most important. It feels that it would be much easier to prioritize because you'd have an overview of everything that happened.