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searching "{bus route} {city} coronavirus" or "{grocery store location} coronavirus" is a much more effective way of getting this information than just reading
by leetcrew 7y ago
searching "{bus route} {city} coronavirus" or "{grocery store location} coronavirus" is a much more effective way of getting this information than just reading the local news headlines for five minutes and hoping you see all the information that's relevant to you. polling the news every morning is not a good strategy for retrieving specific factual info.
when it comes to more complex things like "how bad is coronavirus about to be in the west?" reading the news for five minutes isn't nearly enough. for each story, you need to read writeups from several different publications before you can reconstitute anything like an accurate picture of what is happening. pick any important story and read the corresponding articles in the ny times, wsj, and maybe the washington post. it's really staggering how differently they present the facts (and which ones they choose to present at all). it takes a lot of work to come away from reading the news more informed rather than less.
- dessant 7y agoSome of the replies are focusing too much on specific examples rather than applying the idea in general. Checking out a local news source and government announcements once a day during a crisis may expose you to information that you wouldn't know to look up, and that information may be vital.
- capableweb 7y agoYeah, true, too focused on specifics. We also seem to come from vastly different sides of this coin, where if you can trust the government to have accurate, true and recent information published as soon as they have it, government resources are enough while in other places (like China, US or Russia for example), governments are a lot less trusted and reliable, and you might need to look up local news to get the full picture. Thanks for sticking with us, explaining your viewpoint further :)