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Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News

• ubernostrum 10y ago
  Whether or not "the news" is worthwhile is a political topic. Get it off HN.
• andrewclunn 10y ago
  I want weather, upcoming local events, and product recalls. I look forward to some future app called "Useful information" where people select which topics they want to be kept abreast of. Sort of like what Google News looked like it might become until it stopped innovating.
• Tempest1981 10y ago
  The local news seems to always be about murders and violence. I guess they're catering to our morbid curiousity? Why is it beneficial to learn about every instance of "humans behaving badly"? (Celebrities, ok, maybe, but random people?)
  • grzm 10y ago
    If it bleeds, it leads. People react to these kinds of stories, not dissimilarly to how they react to click-bait. It's about viewers.
• cJ0th 10y ago
  I cut my news intake down to one daily newsletter and reading a few pages of my nation's public television teletext.