iirc there’s a bit in the book “Stranger In A Strange Land” where the hero’s mentor does an essay about how people are reading too much news and worrying about countries they have no business caring about.

Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle” has a weekly white supremist hate magazine.

Nope. Paper material ends fairly quickly, and changing pages provides a measurable progression. Doom scrolling goes essentially forever, with no sense of progression

Cartoon published in 1910. What do you think?

Note: Spain did NOT in fact, blowup that ship.