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Piggy-backing off this, does anyone have any tips for navigating the news when there's a large undercurrent of panic beneath the surface? I get that the news h
by bloopernova 7y ago
Piggy-backing off this, does anyone have any tips for navigating the news when there's a large undercurrent of panic beneath the surface?
I get that the news has the motto of if it bleeds, it leads but I also need to know the major events occurring in the world.
Personally I've been trying to view the news as something that is more panic inducing in such a trying time. I've tried to recognize that the language being used is coming from people who may be just as scared as anyone else, and that feeds into a self-reinforcing loop.
I've also found that reading Reddit's comments are anxiety-inducing, so I've tried to stick to the study-and-facts-only subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/ https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/
- majormajor 7y agoSomething I accidentally started doing was reading the news on a delay. I had some email subscriptions from publications that I fell behind on, and then when I started working through the ones from a few weeks earlier, would notice that there were a lot of articles that were clearly not relevant or useless at all - like weeks of speculation and prediction on an upcoming election. Which you can sorta apply in real time too - look for facts, not prediction - so it's shaped how I look at real-time headlines and such too.
- jvagner 7y agoMy current tactic: I'm reading "The Week" via Feedly/RSS only. It's helpful w/r/t with the "reload" impulse and the "casting a wider net" tendency.
- j88439h84 7y ago> I also need to know the major events occurring in the world. I'm curious what line of work you're in which requires you to know all that.
- bloopernova 7y agoThat's my concession to my nature. I want to know all the things happening around the world, and have since I was young. I decided to try to temper it, rather than deny it outright.