I think there's a limit to how much news the average person can and should imbibe before it strains mental health -- stepping back can be very good.

Personally, the main way I interact with news online is reading good quality newspapers. I haven't watched TV news since I was a teenager in the 80s -- TV news is so spectacularly terrible that it's in a whole other category of uselessness and self-harm. Neil Postman nailed this back with "Amusing Ourselves To Death".

The massive die-out of local newspapers has also become a huge problem. Local news was less volatile, more connected to what we individuals actually saw going on in the world around us, more personalized to our lives, and less embroiled in national partisanships ... so it tended to be among the healthiest forms of news around. As local newspapers died, large national/international publications have assumed a much larger role in people's news diets -- but far too big a role. They don't cover any local news we care about because they're too big and are serving massive, spread-out audiences.