Depressing news

The news, online, on TV, radio, newspapers etc is so depressing, wars, prices going up, strikes ( Bus, Rail, PO) and so on, is so depressing and affecting me.

So as an experiment I am going offline to recover my mental balance.  For the next seven days I will try to avoid all news, I will read books, listen to music, watch DVDs.  And be almost totally cut off from the outside world and the madness it represents.