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Oh, oh, don't do this! This is a bad bad thing - don't get all your news from one source and already pre-filtered for you. You lose track of alternative opinion
by maxklein 18y ago
Oh, oh, don't do this! This is a bad bad thing - don't get all your news from one source and already pre-filtered for you. You lose track of alternative opinions, you lose track of how the rest of the world thinks, and soon you cannot innovate anymore because all your ideas are pretty much the same.
It's terrible terrible mistake to only have one news source.
- invisible 18y agoI do agree with you in some respects, but you must also consider that HN isn't "pre-filtered" in the sense of a newspaper. Anyone can submit a link (which can make it to the front page), and you can click over to 'new' to see all links chronologically. I think that's a big flaw in saying "one news source" is bad in today's technology age.
- fallentimes 18y agoThe submitters are somewhat pre-filtered as the group of people that submit links to Hacker News is different from journalists and bloggers. Certainly, it's better than only viewing one blog, or one website or one parent company (e.g. Fox, CNN), but it still has flaws.
- invisible 18y agoIt wouldn't very well be hacker news if it were submitted by non-hackers, huh?
- fallentimes 18y agoTechnically, I'm a non-hacker :).
- fallentimes 18y agoAgreed. It's why I read BBC & Al Jazeera as often as I read WSJ, the Washington Post and NY Times. But if you do it for antsy, looking-for-something-else-to-do-besides-work reading, I think you're OK.
- maxklein 18y agoAl Jazeera is good. But some years back, I used to live in a place where I got Al Jazeera Arabic. That channel is WAY too gory. Some stuff just should not be shown on TV when I'm flicking through looking for some late night softcore.