Actually "stop reading the news" is a good advice. Though it doesn't mean that you should stop participating in your community. There are better sources of information, I imagine, for almost any topic.

> “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/thomas-jefferson-ha...