Good Directions

Published: June 30, 2023, 8 p.m.

AL Kennedy explores how we get information without an overload of negativity.

'Sadness, rage, anxiety...our media use them to hook us, withhold the good news, exhaust us with the bad', she writes.

She reflects on why 'selective news avoidance' is on the increase.

Producer: Adele Armstrong \nSound: Peter Bosher \nProduction coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross \nEditor: Penny Murphy