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> A newspaper has a start and an end. That's as simple as it needs to be for me to move on with my day. That's the heart of it. As the author writes, "Once I'v
by mshroyer 5y ago
> A newspaper has a start and an end. That's as simple as it needs to be for me to move on with my day.
That's the heart of it. As the author writes, "Once I've read the paper, I'm done reading the news." I try to get most of my news from a weekly newspaper (in print) for that reason, though I admit I've had middling success maintaining discipline about this lately.
There's no fundamental reason a digital news outlet couldn't achieve the same property by exclusively releasing stories in a discrete "edition" on the web once per week. I guess the incentives just don't line up to make that happen.
- wave100 5y agoIt's not exactly what you're describing, but The Economist does something fairly similar. They publish a weekly print edition, and articles on their site are posted at a much slower pace than other sites.
- garmaine 5y agoNewsweek is maybe a better comparison?
- mshroyer 5y agoYep, The Economist is the weekly print newspaper I subscribe to :) But my problem is that I have trouble avoiding checking news websites on a more frequent basis. (EDIT: And that includes some online articles from The Economist... which don't seem to come in on a purely weekly schedule, right? Though maybe I'm mistaken.)
- LeoPanthera 5y agoThe New York Times publishes its daily paper edition online as well. https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper
- Tsiklon 5y agoThe Times in the UK does this albeit several times a day as opposed to a weekly digest.