It sounds like what you’re describing is an addiction to news. This leads to a terrible burn-out cycle: news addiction leads to reading more news (which routinely manipulates your emotions) -> less time spent actually working/reading books/going outside -> more time reading the news.
Completely agree, reading the news has been the single biggest detriment to my productivity. It's tough because it's so easy to do, and pretty much baked in at this point. Sometimes I feel like the only way to break it would be to switch to something entirely unrelated to sitting behind a keyboard all day.
