When you constantly check the news to see what’s happening, you are confirming the fact that your fate depends on the outside world and on the factors that are beyond your control. It shows your fear of what might happen that would impact your life or the hope that something good might happen that would bring opportunities to your life—opportunities that you are desperately waiting for.
This is the opposite of taking your fate in your own hands and you spend more time listening, reading and watching the news instead of making news yourself.