Yes, it has. Not "tuning out" the news has helped me mitigate significant problems for me personally, which a delay of a couple days would have meant it was too late.

I think your word choice ("enjoying living in a perpetually outraged state", "martyrdom") seems to show more outrage than a lot of the people you rail against.

It's also my impression that most people who want everybody to turn off the news agree with or don't care about any bad things happening to people that are being reported on.