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I remember reading a newspaper for hours after school. Now I barely read news for more than 30 mins a day. I am more connected but my satisfaction of the qualit

I remember reading a newspaper for hours after school. Now I barely read news for more than 30 mins a day. I am more connected but my satisfaction of the quality of news I am consuming has gone really down. I wonder what similar changes Philippines is seeing. People are obviously replacing some offline activity with something similar they do online. For example spending time with friends our neighbors in real life has now been replaced with FB or Whatsapp. Probably because it is more convenient? Is it better though?

barry-cotter 8y ago
> I remember reading a newspaper for hours after school. Now I barely read news for more than 30 mins a day. I am more connected but my satisfaction of the quality of news I am consuming has gone really down. Before you wasted multiple hours a day on ephemera when you could have read something lasting or done something more fun, now you waste less than an hour. Before you had no information sources to provide alternative viewpoints or later, more in depth reporting after the initial flurry of news reporting. Now you realise journalists are often ignorant, writing under really tight deadlines and have no incentive to fix mistakes unless someone can sue them or has their own media platform. Journalism was always awful, you just didn’t know.