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Life hack: if you do want to keep up on global current events but can't stand the breathless media circus, get your news from Wikipedia.[1] If you actually wan
by 0_____0 5y ago
Life hack: if you do want to keep up on global current events but can't stand the breathless media circus, get your news from Wikipedia.[1]
If you actually want to make a difference consider putting more into getting engaged locally, whatever that means for you. National and global scale issues are really easy to fall into a despair/paralysis cycle with.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
- einpoklum 5y agoWikipedia will be a short and less inflammatory summary of the "breathless media circus", which is still really not good enough.
- james-redwood 5y agoExactly Wikipedia’s flaw: it only holds a mirror to the sources, and even then, a distorted one at that to the whims of an anonymous editor who very well could have an inflammatory agenda and in cohort with other similar actors.
- 0_____0 5y agoI got some utility out of the Wikipedia current events page, but I don't assume that it'll be universally useful. I have to ask you though -- putting aside the general issues with writer bias on Wikipedia, what issues do you have with the presentation of info in the Current Events portal?
- 0_____0 5y agoI mean... I'm looking at the current events page and there's a conspicuous lack of exhausting USA focused culture war BS. It's dry and to be honest a bit boring. If you look at the Ongoing Events pane on the right, there's a list of present issues that don't necessarily get reported on because they don't have the flash to drive ad revenue.