With dozens of news channels, news radio stations, news sites, news feeds, and news-oriented blogs assaulting the public, increasing stress, driving up blood pressures, and causing heart attacks, health officials have called for one day a year during which, in the words of World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Akidje Olotunje, “the only news will be that there was no news at all.”
WHO has proposed that governments, corporations, research institutions, and others who make news—including terrorists, rapists and serial killers—all agree to do nothing newsworthy for one day a year, to be called No News November Ninth.
“No news is good news,” said Olotunje. “That’s a quote. I didn’t make it up. Honest.”
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