We are news addicted and it makes us less healthy Scot McKnight Image: Photo by Mario Calvo on Unsplash Journalists have my respect, now and forever. Their professional standards are high, their commitment to the task is serious, and the craft of writing up (or speaking on TV) the news often noteworthy. The task today is all but impossible with everything controlled more and more by ads, and ads controlled by clicks, and clicks by … well, what provokes and irritates. The profession of newswriting has been compromised by the business of news. And there’s way way way too much of it...