Curating a news feed does not mean filtering out everything difficult or filtering in only what feels comfortable, which would produce a distorted, falsely reassuring picture. It means deliberately choosing sources known for accuracy and context over ones known mainly for provoking a strong emotional reaction.
A well-curated feed still includes hard stories, genuine problems deserve genuine attention, but it favours outlets that pair those problems with context, follow-up, and a fair account of what is being done, rather than ones that specialise in alarm without any of the fuller picture attached.
Building a feed like this takes some initial effort, actively seeking out and following better sources rather than passively accepting whatever an algorithm serves up by default, but it pays off steadily afterward in a news diet that stays honest without leaving a reader either misinformed or needlessly overwhelmed. Done consistently, that small, deliberate curation adds up to a meaningfully different relationship with the news than the one most algorithms would otherwise produce.