We are used to thinking of what we call the news as a tool that can help us to vanquish ignorance: we will, thanks to its updates, properly understand what is going on and where importance lies.

But if we examine the role of this phenomenon with greater scepticism, we may find that it is as...

At its core, the news is opposed to introspection. It doesn't want us to know ourselves better and compulsively disconnects our emotions from their true but often hard-to-grasp targets.

While pretending to inform us about the state of the world, the news has become a formidable instrume...