An outdated term but a concept more relevant than ever.

In addition to politics, celebrity gossip, sports, and news in general you can add financial, doomsday, financial doomsday, and Netflix to the list.

Caught myself using Drudge, Zerohedge, WSJ, r/all way too much resulting in a huge waste of time

You have to focus. There’s so much content out there to distract you.

Here is a decent video that refers to it as the attention diet. Nutritional forms of content.