I'll just chime in to say that I am another with no sense of doom at all, whether because I've checked out from so many news sources (and agree wholeheartedly that most of the time who really has any idea of what
really happened) or because of something harder to describe?
Either way, at present I am content to monitor from more of a distance than ever... and that really is a big change in my attitude.
I do have an interest in discussing how things could be headed, very much so; it's just that my views on where this could be headed are completely divergent from what media in general presents and, depending on who I am talking to, my starting point views and those of the person I am talking to can be quite different too, though increasingly our conversations are tending to converge.
Even if we disagree on the issues or what happened, we have an increasing tendency to agree on things like 'we don't really know what exactly happened (details, sequence of events, etc) and can't really trust this from the news' or 'we would like to send compassion of some form to victims of an occurrence', whether this be in the form of goods, $, loving thoughts of whatever. Though the news itself most often does not, this part gives me warm feelings