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More and more I find people who have done what I do; I don't watch TV "news" anymore and ignore almost every "news" article or posting online. Unless the headli

More and more I find people who have done what I do; I don't watch TV "news" anymore and ignore almost every "news" article or posting online. Unless the headline might be a topic I'm specifically interested in and think it affects me I don't give it the time.

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wu-ikkyu 8y ago
I'm in the same camp. It seems the "news", in general, is a buffer overflow of malicious information that serves to override our logical thought processes with negative emotions and irrational tendencies.
le-mark 8y ago
It's all tabloid news now; calf born with two heads, Grandma abducted by aliens, tells all! It a consequence of the death of journalism in my opinion. We're all worse off.
MBCook 8y ago
I’ve gotten to that point too. Even before things got so much worse in the last two years I had already mostly tuned out of news because it stopped being journalism. I would 100% tune out near the end of election cycles. So much of it is just straight reporting. “X said this, Y said that.” No analysis, no critical thought as to whether any of those few points worth presenting at all. Just clips of people’s claims, totally unchecked. If I wanted to know what a candidate or CEO said without any analysis, I could just read their press release.
- repolfx 8y ago
  Seems everyone is tuning out but for different reasons. I still read a lot of news, but I don't like the dish I'm being served, exactly because it is not just straight reporting but rather is a non-stop stream of journalists' personal political opinions masquerading as analysis and news. I actually would prefer to just read their press releases unfiltered, if there was an organisation that aggregated the ones I'd happen to be interested in, in a trustworthy way.
  - sureaboutthis 8y ago
    TV "news" people interviewing themselves.
cdubzzz 8y ago
I advise one tweak to that — find a good local news source. That may be state or city focused depending on where you live. A lot of things happen in those arenas that do affect you, whether you know or it not.

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wu-ikkyu 8y ago

I'm in the same camp. It seems the "news", in general, is a buffer overflow of malicious information that serves to override our logical thought processes with negative emotions and irrational tendencies.

le-mark 8y ago

It's all tabloid news now; calf born with two heads, Grandma abducted by aliens, tells all! It a consequence of the death of journalism in my opinion. We're all worse off.

MBCook 8y ago

I’ve gotten to that point too. Even before things got so much worse in the last two years I had already mostly tuned out of news because it stopped being journalism. I would 100% tune out near the end of election cycles. So much of it is just straight reporting. “X said this, Y said that.” No analysis, no critical thought as to whether any of those few points worth presenting at all. Just clips of people’s claims, totally unchecked. If I wanted to know what a candidate or CEO said without any analysis, I could just read their press release.

repolfx 8y ago
Seems everyone is tuning out but for different reasons. I still read a lot of news, but I don't like the dish I'm being served, exactly because it is not just straight reporting but rather is a non-stop stream of journalists' personal political opinions masquerading as analysis and news. I actually would prefer to just read their press releases unfiltered, if there was an organisation that aggregated the ones I'd happen to be interested in, in a trustworthy way.
- sureaboutthis 8y ago
  TV "news" people interviewing themselves.

cdubzzz 8y ago

I advise one tweak to that — find a good local news source. That may be state or city focused depending on where you live. A lot of things happen in those arenas that do affect you, whether you know or it not.