Depression - avoid the news?

It's hard to avoid despair & despondency over the state of the world. How useful - or practical - would it be to stop watching 'the news' on TV, in print, on radio and in conversation? I personally find it hard to know, yet ignore, much of what goes on. I'm in a permanent state of angry despondency.

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SW-User

I honestly don't think we were meant to know everything going on around the world... all the hate, killing, bombings, rape, etc....
I can't deal with large doses of negative things daily.
The more people are able to spread the negatives by all kinds of ways... the more I try to avoid it all.
I have enough to deal with here with family and so many things going on. And I already know the world is full of bad things... I need to search out some good things.