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On the median day, major western news sources have zero articles I care about. Here are the current headlines from https://text.npr.org https://text.npr.org: -
by tfehring 5y ago
On the median day, major western news sources have zero articles I care about. Here are the current headlines from https://text.npr.org https://text.npr.org:
- The parents of the accused Michigan school shooter head to court again
- Experts crack the secret to last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots before her execution
- The Air Force discharges 27 service members for refusing to get a COVID vaccine
- Their lives were changed by gun violence, and now they're running for office
- The best and worst places to live if you care only about money
- To save lives, the overdose antidote naxalone should be sold over-the-counter, advocates argue
- Vaccine protection vs. omicron infection may drop to 30% but does cut severe disease
- The federal agency that measures racial diversity is led mostly by white people
- Rep. Liz Cheney read the text messages she says Mark Meadows got during the Jan. 6 siege
- Kentucky crews search painstakingly for 109 people missing after deadly tornadoes
- 'Return of the Jedi,' 'Selena' and 'Sounder' added to National Film Registry
- Pfizer data shows that its COVID-19 pill is effective against severe disease
- Saule Omarova gets candid: Banks sank her nomination to become a key regulator
- The Supreme Court again leaves a state vaccine mandate in place for health care workers
- Survivors of Nassar's abuse reach a $380 million deal with USA Gymnastics and the Olympic committee
- This year's Golden Globes nominations avoid obvious pitfalls, but won't restore the awards' luster
- More Black families are homeschooling their children, citing the pandemic and racism
- No U.S. troops behind a drone strike that killed Afghan civilians will be punished
- What dish is never missing from your holiday table? Tell us why you love it
- Elon Musk is Time's 2021 Person of the Year
I'd love an RSS feed that lets me know about Russian troops on the Ukranian border but not about any of those "stories." Actually reading the news is a frustrating experience because the signal-to-noise ratio is so poor.
- gberger 5y ago> - Pfizer data shows that its COVID-19 pill is effective against severe disease This seems the most relevant piece of news to me. Do you not care about it?
- selfhoster11 5y agoIt's buried in a mountain of spam. You might just miss it.
- QuarterReptile 5y agoIt's not news. You can read the trials yourself from months (year?) ago and know this. Important, yes, but not news.
- tfehring 5y agoI care about the effectiveness and approval of Pfizer's treatment, but I don't care to be informed about every single new piece of information that comes out about it. In this case the news was that Pfizer released additional data that's consistent with the interim report it released a little over a month ago. If the final analysis contradicted its original report, or if their emergency use authorization were approved or denied, that's something I'd want to see. It's still the most newsworthy item on the list IMO, and I wouldn't be upset if it slipped into my feed.