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These links discuss "news diets" as a counter to the problem of news as low-quality information and/or information pollution: http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/
by cleetus 7y ago
These links discuss "news diets" as a counter to the problem of news as low-quality information and/or information pollution:
http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when.. http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when....
http://www.dobelli.com/en/essays/news-diet/ http://www.dobelli.com/en/essays/news-diet/
And here's a similar recent discussion on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084099
- f055 7y agoYour dobelli link is 404 :( anyway, this whole problem isn’t new but it’s very hard to solve. How to stay informed but not bloated? I don’t know... here they compare mainstream news to fast food so I guess that’s one way to look at it: https://thecontext.net/opinion/2017/04/4/the-post-truth-and-the-context.html https://thecontext.net/opinion/2017/04/4/the-post-truth-and-...
- gwern 7y agohttps://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf