Although nonetheless, I am also of the opinion that it will never hurt us to keep also an eye wide open and very attentive to the cliques, self-fulfilling prophecies and alternate facts that mainstream media use to spread and regurgitate the very same thing everywhere around.
I would say that it would likely be better to keep it in peripheries to see trends, but put most of the time into building locally. I think most people think they are being wise by staying abreast of the news, yet don't realize when they are being led by it.
Perhaps all we need to stay more in calm, is just invest in some new foolproof electronic device to tell us beforehand what is of Relevance and what is not as soon as possible all the time.
Web of Trust algorithms could have an effect on this.
Yeah, not so bad to keep it also in peripheries to see the trends on time and stay well aware of the shenanigans that always will be surrounding you every minute.
Well, although I still think that if those algorithms could come enclosed in some sort of blackbox or hardware attachment for your TV set, that also would help big time to be wiser. };)