News Is Toxic Body

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Claimed by Dobelli, the news is toxic to your body (R.Dobelli, 2013, para. 6). Where is ‘toxic' could be? How can author assume that way? In the paragraph, he talks about limbic system, immune system, and others without attaches to any supported research. A speculative statement caused by Dobelli. Everything he talks in that paragraph leads to psychological issues but the way he explains is simply wrong. The news isn't directly affecting human body like he says. Meantime, news affects to human psychology. And it just the bad one, not all types of the news. Again, author makes a generalization for his statement. If author talks about psychological effect by reading bad news, I agree. But he didn't. As an evidence, I have some of the facts. One

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