There are people who object to journalists serving news to us, they wish that people should go out and hunt for news. In fact, journalists create content that sells good advertising and builds up circulation. This acts as a filter for some news. Rolf Dobelli, a Swiss writer, is known for his aversion to news. Nassim Taleb, the writer of the Black Swan functions without news. News does not make you a better decision maker. It does not give a competitive advantage to you. Rolf is no worse off without consuming news. According to him, news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. It is not good. However, people are addicted to news. It takes a lot of effort to break off the addiction. News is not knowledge. How can you get knowledge from events ? You have to read detailed articles, which perhaps are built on disaggregated pieces of news. One has to connect the dots. News is the dots.