he said "bad has taken over my life. every day i hear bad news. these stories describe bad actions, bad people, bad outcomes. they dominate the news cycle. they overwhelm my senses." the president said, the modern world news is full of badness and it increases with the media and technology. phones buzz and beep with the latest bad news. he wrote, the truth can be lost in this print. facts are twisted by the world in pace of the race. judgmentists struggle in a world that doesn't seem to want voracity, verification and evidence. he's right. and this problem is not unique to journalists. everyone else struggles with it too. what's the antidote, what's the cure for news overload? a big part of the answer is old-fashioned editors, curators, new fangled newsletter writers, producers, managers, people who are skilled at separating news