Oh yes, I assumed that's what you meant. I used to find that kind of news calming as well — back in the days when I lived with my family and we got a print copy of the newspaper every day, and I read it in the morning.

It's the frenzied flood of news and analysis being posted in real-time on newspapers' websites (usually in the form of a politics livefeed) that I can't handle, especially since it tends to involve intense speculation without all the facts being known.

I agree with you regarding Twitter and Facebook.