Read a fascinating article in New Scientist a while back that argued deja vu is essentially a memory glitch, your brain failing to properly timestamp a current experience. When you cut out the constant barrage of news, your mind isn't juggling as many competing narratives, so those minor perceptual errors become more apparent (like hearing a faint clock tick only after the TV is off). It's not the Matrix, it's just your cognitive background processes becoming audible, for lack of a better word. That article specifically cited research on patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, where deja vu is a common aura, showing it's a hardwired neurological phenomenon. So I'm firmly in the 'less noise pollution' camp, because the alternative is giving far too much credit to a system that can't even keep its servers from lagging during prime time. Stopping the news probably just turned down the static so you can hear your own brain's radio station, complete with occasional repeats.