Periodicity
“It’s important to remember this: businesses that rely on constant online or televisual engagement — social media platforms, TV news channels, news websites — make bank from our rage. They have every incentive, whether they are aware of it or not, to inflame our passions.”
I may not want to subscribe to the same news as Jacobs, but I do agree with him that too much of the "breaking" news is a bad thing. I've been slowly weaning myself away from it, but I'll admit that it's hard to do once you're used to checking in a lot.