I would rather keep up on the news that I think matters to me than the news in general. People seem to just love reporting the exact same things. I used to have frequented r/news to note this.
Lots of news about dead people, dead children .etc that sparks a lot of age-old debates.
Occasionally some celebrity dies, some small, some big.
Political follow-ups that ultimately just lead to arguments.
I tend to also like getting news a little after the fact. It helps the digesting and processing in a sense.
And they’re the kind of bully where the rest of the world just disappointingly sighs and has to deal with because they know Russia is absolutely no better and China is meh.