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Now I’m curious, where do you live? “News” are serving a very weird market, almost 100% about selling stories that satisfy the distorted attention span of demog
by hans1729 4y ago
Now I’m curious, where do you live? “News” are serving a very weird market, almost 100% about selling stories that satisfy the distorted attention span of demographic majorities who have no interest in going beyond the surface level of their groups model of consensus. It’s an omnidirectional intellectual wasteland, ignoring some pieces of economical (etc) analysis.
What do you have to be informed about a priori?
After years of dodging newspapers I got hooked on “news” in feb-mar 2020 due to Covid. Took about one month until I remembered that it’s a complete waste of time. I feel like the HN-audience has very little to gain from news directed at the general population.
- golergka 4y agoUsed to be Russia until early March.
- windowsrookie 4y agoIs there any real mainstream news in Russia? I'm lead to believe that all of the news there is government controlled propaganda.
- golergka 4y agoThere are independent media in Russian language (most not physically located in Russia), internet at large, social networks and VPNs to access those that are banned. But if you were someone who "didn't follow the news" for the last 10 years, you would consume government's propaganda instead, and believe it. Which is my point.
- rakejake 4y agoSame here, got hooked to news during Covid and for a few months it was agony. Then I realized why I stopped reading news regularly in the first place.