You want to keep up on what's happening in the world. But sometimes the front page stories are so sad, and horrifying, and incomprehensible. So you page through the Sports section first, then you go to the Arts section, you even spend some time on the Business section.
Finally, you get to the headline stories. You pause, you see the pictures, you kind of get the gist of what happened, and what is happening and you just put the newspaper down. You move on. Somehow you think the details are not going to help you understand one damn thing...